New Delhi:
An Indian soldier on Thursday strayed across the border with Pakistan amid rising tensions following a surgical strike India said it carried out against terror launchpads.
Interestingly, the report in Dawn News that claimed that eight Indian soldiers were killed was taken off from its website in the night. Earlier, Dawn paper had also reported that an Indian soldier had been captured and was identified as 22-year-old Sepoy Chandu BabuLal Chavan son of Bashan Chavan from Maharashtra.
Indian Army sources, however, said, “one soldier from 37 RR with weapon has inadvertently crossed over to the other side of the Line of Control. Pakistan has been informed by the DGMO on the hotline.”
The sources said his crossing over was not related to the surgical strikes. “Such inadvertent crossing by Army and civilians are not unusual on either side. They are returned through existing mechanisms,” they said.
A source in the Northern Command also indicated that Chohan was an army deserter. The Dawn report said he has been shifted to an undisclosed location.
The report also had said, “The dead bodies of the Indian soldiers are still to be recovered by the Indian forces as they lay unattended at the LoC.”
