A month after India and China held Corps Commander-level talks in Arunachal Pradesh amid reports of tension in the Taksing area of Upper Subansiri district following moves by the Chinese PLA, Shatrujeet Kapur, Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), has admitted to a “face-off” at “several locations in Arunachal” which are “still ongoing”.

The ITBP chief’s remarks, the first by an official on the situation in the frontier state, drew a sharp reaction from the Opposition Congress Friday, which demanded “immediate answers” from the government on the situation.

The Ministry of External Affairs , responding to a question on Kapur’s comments, said the situation along the Line of Actual Control “gets disturbed from time to time when Chinese forces diverge from established patrolling patterns”.…