New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday denied issuing pictures of soldiers involved in Army's operation against Northeast militants "along the India-Myanmar border".
The clarification from the Centre came to clear the air after purported images of the offensive went viral on the internet.
Defence Ministry spokesperson Sitanshu Kar took to Twitter today to announce that the ministry had not released any photos of the operation "so far".
A Clarification: MoD has NOT issued any photo relating to Indian Army action along Indo-Myanmar border in the North East, so far.
— Sitanshu Kar (@SpokespersonMoD) June 11, 2015
The clarification from the Defence Ministry came hours after at least three photos showing soldiers flashing victory signs and carrying guns went viral on social networking websites.
One of the threes photos showed around 20 soldiers sitting before an army helicopter and posing for the camera. Captions of this photo read: these soldiers had carried out the offensive against militants along the India-Myanmar border killing more than 20 militants.
News Agency ANI had tweeted the purported photo of Army's operation along the Indo-Myanmar border, which later went viral on the internet.
Army team that destroyed militant camp in Myanmar. No casualties. Faces blurred to protect identity. pic.twitter.com/fXAVAmxLSM
— ANI (@ANI_news) June 10, 2015
At least 40 commandos of Army's 21 Para Special Forces carried out cross-border surgical strikes in retaliation to the June 4 ambush in Manipur's Chandel district in which 18 soldiers of 6 Dogra Regiment were martyred.
