The Indian government on Friday said that the Chinese military intruded into India's territory in Arunachal Pradesh last month.

Junior Home Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said that there were two incidents of transgression by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) into Arunachal Pradesh in July.

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"One incident was reported from Kibithu area in remote Anjaw district on July 22 and another at Thangsa in Tawang district in the same month," Rijiju said.

Rijiju, however, made it clear that the incidents involving PLA troops entering the border areas of Arunachal Pradesh state were transgressions and not incursions. "We cannot term it as incursion, but transgression as the Chinese army just crossed the perceived area along the Line of Actual Control," he said, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

In another incident of the PLA's transgressions into Indian territory, Chinese troops entered into the border district of Uttarakhand state in July.

Last month, Indian defense minister Manohar Parrikar informed the country's parliament that there were 400-500 acts of 'transgression' by Chinese troops every year. However, he pointed out that the incidents of transgression are declining year by year.

India and China have been engaged in a bitter territorial dispute for more than five decades. Both countries are building up military infrastructure on the both sides of Line of Actual Control (LAC).  

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