New Delhi, June 22 -- In order to repel any transgression by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in either western, middle or eastern sectors, India has deployed its specialised high altitude warfare forces along the 3,488 km Line of Actual Control (LAC).

The Indian Army has been instructed to safeguard the LAC from any cross-border aggression by the PLA, confirmed the top government sources.

A former Indian Army Chief said, "The art of mountain fighting is the toughest as the cost of human casualties is 10 to each troop of the adversary sitting on a height. The troops from Uttarakhand, Ladakh, Gorkha, Arunachal and Sikkim have adapted to the rarefied heights over centuries and hence their capability of fighting is close quarter ...