Sufficient evidence of Pakistan army’s involvement in mutilation of soldiers: India

India considers the mutilation of Indian soldiers “a strong act of provocation”, ministry of external affairs spokesperson Gopal Baglay said.

He also said blood samples collected from the site in Krishna Ghati sector along the Line of Control (LoC) matches with the blood of the two Indian security personnel.

Asserting that the government has “sufficient evidence” that Pakistan army was involved in the mutilation of Indian soldiers, he said the “blood trail” shows that the perpetrators who entered the Indian side from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), returned from where they came from.

Responding to a series of questions on the issue, he said Pakistan high commissioner Abdul Basit, who was summoned by foreign secretary S Jaishankar, denied that Indian soldiers were mutilated.

Basit said he will convey the “content of the demarche” to his government, according to Baglay.

Basit was summoned to convey India’s “outrage at the killing and the barbaric act of mutilation of the bodies of two Indian soldiers on May one, 2017 by Pakistani army personnel,” an external affairs ministry statement said.