The retreating Chinese team left behind road building equipment like water bowser and heavy-earth movers.
China tried to construct a road through Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh days after India-China border talks in New Delhi.
Days after Ajit Doval - India's National Security Advisor and Special Representative on the boundary issue - met his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi, China tried to build a road through Indian territory in Bishing, in the Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh.
The Chinese were pushed back by the Indian troops.
Doval met Jiechi on December 20 in New Delhi.
Sources told India Today, a road building party from China entered Indian territory in a remote part of Arunachal Pradesh on December 26. The ITBP (Indo-Tibetan Border Police) Force and Indian Army, alerted by the villagers rushed and interdicted the Chinese.
The area where the Chinese construction party entered is close to the place where Brahmaputra river enters India, sources said.
Top Army sources said, "The Chinese wanted to construct an Op-track - non metal road to move men and material - around two kilometers away from the nearest ITBP post."
The Op-track is about 600 meters long and a 12-feet wide track was constructed on Indian territory.
Indian troops pushed back the labours, and "seized their equipment," sources said.
Subsequently, Indian troops have barricaded the area since and have been guarding it.
The retreating Chinese team left behind road building equipment like water bowser and heavy-earth movers.
Sources said China has now requested returning the equipment.
Earlier, last year Indian and Chinese troops were engaged in a 73-day stand-off at the Doklam Plateau in Bhutan.
The stand-off between both the troops near the India-China-Bhutan tri-junction started on June 16, when a PLA construction party entered the Doklam area and attempted to construct a road on land that is claimed by Bhutan.
The face-off ended on August 28.
The standoff led to tension between the two nuclear armed nations.
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