New Delhi: Information on casualties suffered by Chinese soldiers in the Galwan Valley clash with the Indian forces in Ladakh two years ago cannot be disclosed, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has held.
In a recent order, the CIC, the highest appellate body under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, refused to allow a plea seeking “the casualties to the Chinese forces”.
Indian and Chinese troops clashed on the intervening night of June 15 and 16 in 2020 in the Galwan Valley along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
Twenty Indian Army personnel laid down their lives in the clashes that marked the most serious military conflict between the two sides in decades. China had acknowledged the death of five soldiers during the clash.
The Chinese losses were pegged to be much higher with a number of soldiers drowning while crossing the river in the darkness, according to an investigative Australian newspaper report in February this year.