India increases troop deployment in Ladakh

India has deployed over 15,000 troops as well as almost an entire armoured division in Ladakh's Depsang and Daulat Beg Oldi area to prevent any misadventure by the Chinese there.

Several armoured regiments have been moved from the plains and adjoining area to check the Chinese Army which has also brought in its tanks and other armoured vehicles there, top government sources told Aajtak and India Today.

The amount of armour that has been put in into the possible battle zone in Depsang plains is good enough to take care of any possible misadventure by the Chinese forces there, the sources said. The Chinese army has been behaving. The deployment in these areas is something unprecedented and is good enough to deter any force present there, they said.

The heavy deployments have been made gradually in line with the strengthening of position in DBO and Depsang area after the Chinese started building up there and sending their patrols to block Indian soldiers coming to PP-10 to PP-13.