Since Article 370 scrapped, monthly Army deaths fall, civilian fatalities rise

Wednesday, 8 December 2021newsdesk

Data provided by the MHA in Parliament last week, and that available with the J&K Police, shows that, on an average, the UT has seen 3.2 casualties a month since August 5, 2019, in terror attacks compared to 2.8 casualties a month in nearly five years before that. The comparative figures for Army personnel killed in that period in J&K are 1.7 per month and 2.8 per month.

New Delhi, 08 December 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, Between May 2014 and August 5, 2019, when J&K’s special status was scrapped – a period of 63 months – 177 civilians died in attacks in the erstwhile state. In the 27 months after that, till November, 87 civilians were killed. Of them, more than 40 were killed this year alone. While J&K reported 255 terror incidents in 2019, there were 244 in 2020. The figure has crossed 200 already this year. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on December 1, Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai presented data while asserting that terror casualties in J&K were falling.

Source - The Indian Express