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New Delhi, April 29 : With two major infiltration bids along the Line of Control in the last month, Army today said it had "redployed" its troops and increased surveillance capabilties to prevent the terrorists’ from crossing over into India.
"The Indian Army has done redeployment (of troops to counter infiltration)...We have built in additional surveillance capabilties to look across LoC... We have deployed more technical equipment for surveillance even at most difficult places keeping the LoC under active patrolling and surveillance at all the times," Army Vice Chief Noble Thamburaj told reporters here.
On the major infiltration bids by terrorists, he said, "In the last fortnight or month, there have been two major infiltration bids, which were partly successful but we in our second tier were able to neutralise most of them."
The Army Vice Chief said the region may witness a "defining moment" as Pakistan Army has started major operations against the Taliban militants.
Thamburaj said the Army had reports about "more" terrorists waiting to infiltrate into India.
"We have realised that there are some more terrorists who are waiting in their launch pads at their training camps to be launched (into India)," he said.
Thamburaj said infiltration bids have been "timed around" Lok Sabha elections.
"This menace of infiltration has been timed around our Lok sabha elections and it will be dealt with firmly," he added.
Recently, Defence Minister A K Antony along with Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor had visited forward posts along the LoC to review the security situation there.
After the visit, the Army Chief yesterday stated that 54 militants had infiltrated into India till March 31 this year and the pattern of deployment of armed forces was refined to effectively tackle the infiltration menace.
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