Villagers along Sino-India border receive suspicious calls
Leh/New Delhi : An alert has been sounded along the Sino-India border after local residents, including a village head, got several telephone calls from “spies” either from Pak or China about army deployment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
The caller, posing himself as either a colonel or a local official, made queries about the army presence in the area and the timings of their movement, official sources said.Recently the ‘sarpanch’ (village head) of Durbuk village, located at an altitude of 13,500 feet above sea level between Chang La and Tsangte village, received a call in which the caller asked whether “outstanding” issues with the army had been sorted. The sarpanch, who was sitting inside an army camp at the time of receiving the call, got suspicious and enquired from the caller about his identity. Despite the caller identifying himself to be from Deputy Commissioner’s office, the sarpanch identified as Stanzin snubbed him and said he should get in touch with the army.
He also inquired from the local DC’s office only to find that no one from that number had called.
Talking to PTI over phone, Stanzin said he received the call only once. “The caller was asking about the movement of troops and whether the roads had been built in the area for their movement.
