Meanwhile, patrolling has been enhanced along the LoC and there was no incident of firing on Tuesday night.
Gen Bikram Singh is expected to meet the commanding officer and troops of the battlions whose troops were killed in the ambush, Army officials said.
The ambush that killed five soldiers is one of the worst incidents along LoC since the ceasefire came into force between India and Pakistan in 2003.
A wounded soldier is recuperating in a hospital at Jammu.
The soldiers killed belonged to the 21 Bihar regiment battalion and Maratha Light Infantry battalion, sources said.
They were deployed in Sarla area along the LoC near Chakan-Da-Bagh in Poonch sector in Jammu region.
As per norms lay down no construction can take place 500 metres on either side of LoC. They said the attackers took advantage of bad weather as visibility was poor.
The ambush took place about 40 km away from the site of attack in January in which two soldiers were killed. One Indian soldier was beheaded and the other's body was mutilated causing a nationwide uproar.
Following the incident, Gen Bikram Singh had said that the Army reserved the right to retaliate at a place and time of its choosing and had mentioned that he expected his commanders to be aggressive in the face of firing.
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