Rifles slung upside down, on ponies. Indian troops go on their 1st patrol in Depsang since 2020
New Delhi: A group of Indian soldiers, armed with their rifles slung upside down on their back, riding on ponies, carried out their first patrolling in the Depsang Plains on Monday since 2020.
Sources in the defence and security establishment told ThePrint that the group, about a section strength (10 to 12), crossed over the bottleneck area mid-morning, which opens into the Depsang Plains.
The soldiers were accompanied by ponies. Sources said that Indian troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10.
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Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A and 13 in the Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled. The idea is to take it slow and build up confidence about each other, the sources said.They said that after crossing t...