evidence: Barahoti is a no man’s pasture land used by the local people to graze animals. A 350 km arc of the McMahon Line cuts through the area, signifying the Indo-Tibetan border. It lies some 400 km from Dehradun, up in the hills of Chamoli district in Garhwal. [...] Barahoti is an 80 sq km area of sloping pasture land. It falls in the middle sector of the Sino-Indian border, comprising Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It is a demilitarised zone where Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) jawans are not allowed to take their weapons. In 1958, India and China listed Barahoti as a disputed area and agreed that neither side would send their troops there. In the 1962 war, the PLA did not enter the middle sector.