Parliament Monsoon Session: In the last three years, there have been 400 encounters with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. 85 security forces lost their lives and 630 terrorists were killed in the encounter. This figure is from May 2018 to June 2021. Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai disclosed this information in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.
Six incidents of ceasefire violation
On the other hand, the government had said on Tuesday that only six incidents of ceasefire violations took place in Jammu and Kashmir since India and Pakistan agreed in February to abide by all agreements relating to cross-border firing along the Line of Control (LoC) and the International Border (IB). Nityanand Rai said that there were 5,133 incidents of ceasefire violations in 2020, 3,479 in 2019 and 2,140 in 2018.
Nityanand Rai said in a written reply that a joint statement was issued on February 25, 2021, after scheduled talks on hotline between the Director Generals of Military Operations of India and Pakistan, in which both India and Pakistan signed all agreements along the Line of Control and in all other areas from the intervening night of February 24-25, 2021, agreed to strictly adhere to the consensus and ceasefire.
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According to the minister's reply, there were 380 incidents of ceasefire violations in January and 278 in February this year. He said that not a single incident of ceasefire violation took place in March, while one was reported in April, three in May and two in June.
At the same time, on Wednesday, he told the Rajya Sabha that as on December 31, 2019, there were 4,78,000 prisoners in jails all over the country. Out of these, 1,44,125 were guilty and 3,30,487 were under trials. The minister said the number of female prisoners was 19,913.