Photo: Indian Express
The Indian army, that has been commended by all for its surgical strikes against insurgents on the Myanmar border, was left ‘red-faced’ when it came to light that two photographs doing the rounds on the social networks and other media were actually from operations that took place in 2009 and not of the current one.
As soon the error was spotted, the Defence Ministry issued a press statement that it did not release any such photographs. “A Clarification: MoD has not issued any photo relating to Indian Army action along Indo-Myanmar border in the North East, so far,” Defence Ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar tweetedon Wednesday. It was found later that the Army had cleared the photographs and left no trace of the error.
An Army officer clarified on Thursday that the 2009 photographs were approved as a “representative picture” and “it did not mean it was an operational picture”.
