Chinese trio held by Indian
troops near Line of Actual Control
After dealing with the PLA
incursion last month, army
personnel have now apprehended
three persons of Chinese
origin along the Line of Actual
Control (LAC) carrying political
maps in Arabic language in
the same area.
The three men, identified as Adil, Salamo and Abdul
Khaliq, were nabbed inside
the Indian territory on June 12
near Sultanchku and it took
nearly 10 days for the authorities
to make them give their name,
official sources said.
All the three men are Sunni Muslims aged between 18 and
23 with fair complexion but
their language was not
comprehensible, they said.
The three men -- one of whom
is one-eyed -- were at
present in the custody at Murgo post
and efforts were on to
comprehend their language which did
not have any similarity
with either Chinese or Balti spoken
in Pakistan-occupied-
Kashmir's Baltistan.
It was also not clear where
from they had come as the
nearest habitation across the LAC
was in North of Karakoram
range. Authorities are working on
the possibility that they
could have entered through either
Raki Nallah, Jeevan Nallah
or North of Daulat Beig Oldie, where
Indian and Chinese troops
had a face-off for nearly 21 days
from April 15 to May five.
The three men, who are well
built, cannot be interrogated
until they are brought to Leh town
where translators could be
used to understand their language, the
sources said.
There was a possibility that
the language could be
Yarkandi spoken in Xinjiang province,
close to Pakistan-
occupied-Kashmir and touches DBO tip
in north of Ladakh. The
area has a huge Uyghur population.
Both summer and winter road
connectivity to this post
were cut off due to bad weather in
Ladakh region this year.
Now the authorities have sought
permission to airlift the trio
to Ladakh for a detailed questioning.
