J-K police to approach Centre for consular access to 3 Chinese

Jammu and Kashmir police will soon approach the central government for consular access from the Chinese embassy for deportation of three Chinese nationals, who intruded into Ladakh region on June 12.
The three -- Salamo, Abdul Khaliq and Adil Thorsong -- were brought here and efforts were made to question them using an interpreter as they know only Yarkandi language spoken in Xinjiang province of China, official sources said.
However, the sources said that it was difficult to find any links with terrorism in absence of a certified translator who could testify in the court of law later.
The three have been sent back to Leh with a request being made to Union Home Ministry to liaison with External Affairs Ministry for consular access to them and subsequent deportation, the sources said.

They were handed over to the Leh Police in the last week of August as they could not be brought down from Margo post in north of Ladakh because of bad weather. Finally, they were brought down by helicopter after Defence Ministry's nod.
The Leh police handed them over to the anti-terror squad of the police for detailed questioning here.