The Government on Tuesday told the lok Sabha that stone pelting incidents and terror attacks in Jammu & Kashmir have been fewer in 2017 compared to 2016. However, infiltration bids have seen a rise this year.
Till July 9 this year, 664 incidents of stone pelting occurred while it was 2,808 in 2016. There were 172 incidents of violence by terrorists in J&K as compared to 322 in 2016. But as against 18 infiltration attempts last year, 42 have been made, the Home Ministry said in its written response in lok Sabha.
The MHA said 12 civilians, 38 security personnel lost their lives in terrorist attacks in 2017 while 95 terrorists were gunned down in J&K.
While 8,932 civilians were injured in 2016 against 1,047 in 2010, the number of security personnel injured also went up sharply to 8,378 in 2016 from 5,188 in 2010, MoS Home Hansraj Ahir said. He was responding to a written question Congress’ Jyotiraditya Scindia and YSR Congress’ M Raja Mohan Reddy.
Ahir said that the State Government had informed the Centre that the law and order situation was much better this year than compared to last year. The State police, he said, had registered 583 cases during the current year till date against 2,897 cases of previous year.