Alert sounded near Sino-India border after local residents get telephone calls

New Delhi: Security agencies have sounded an alert along the Sino-India border after local residents, including a village head, got several telephone calls from spies either from Pakistan or China about army deployment along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

According to sources, 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.

Sources further said recently the sarpanch of Durbuk village, located 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 snubbed him and said he should get in touch with the Army. The number was shared with the Army which found that the number appearing on the sarpanch’s phone had been masked and it was a computer generated call.