DC 50 years ago: ‘We will not transgress cease-fire line’

New Delhi: The Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, Lakshmi Menon, declared in the Lok Sabha today, that India had exercised complete administrative jurisdiction in all the villages on her side of the Cease-Fire Line, and she would continue to exercise such legitimate jurisdiction without in any way transgressing the Cease-Fire Line.

Chaknot, even according to Pakistan’s admission, was on the Indian side of the Cease-Fire Line. She was making a statement in reply to a call attention notice, regarding recent development along the Cease-Fire line in Kashmir.

Describing Pakistani allegations, that there was a concentration of Indian troops along the Cease-Fire Line as “completely baseless”, Mrs Menon said that if Pakistan had any complaints of any military build-up on the Indian side at any point along the Cease-Fire Line, she was free to ask the United Nations observers to go into the matter and report the results of their enquiry, after a verification on the spot, as they were authorised to do under the Cease-Fire Agreement.