The PLA (People's Liberation Army) soldier, who had been apprehended by Indian troops on January 8 in eastern Ladakh, was handed back to China at the Chushul-Moldo border meeting point at 10am on Monday. The soldier had inadvertently strayed into Indian territory, where troops from the two countries are ranged against each other in the ongoing military confrontation since early May. In a statement on Saturday, the Army said, “The PLA soldier had transgressed across the LAC and was taken into custody by Indian troops” deployed in the area. In Beijing, the Chinese military confirmed that one of its soldiers "went astray" along the China-India border areas. "Due to darkness and complicated geography, a soldier of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army frontier defence force went astray in the China-India border early Friday morning," China Military Online, an official website of the PLA said.