Lok Sabha Question No. 3329 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-08-07
Subject: Encounters between Terrorists and Security Forces
Ministry: HOME AFFAIRS
Asked by: RAVINDRA VISHWANATH GAIKWAD

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. †3329

TO BE ANSWERED ON THE 7 TH  AUGUST, 2018/SHRAVANA 16, 1940 (SAKA)

ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN TERRORISTS AND SECURITY FORCES

†3329. PROF. RAVINDRA VISHWANATH GAIKWAD:

Will the Minister of HOME AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a)  whether  incidents  of  encounters  involving  the  security  forces  and  the terrorists have increased a lot in the Kashmir Valley;
- (b)  if  so,  the  number  of  such  encounters  reported  along  with  the  number  of terrorists  killed  and  the  number  of  security  personnel  martyred  in  such incidents during the last three years; and
- (c)  the  steps  being  taken  by  the  Government  to  check  the  infiltration  of terrorists in Kashmir?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI HANSRAJ GANGARAM AHIR)

(a) & (b) The  State  of  Jammu  &  Kashmir  has  been  affected  by  terrorist violence that is sponsored and supported from across the border. The levels of terrorist  violence  in  the  hinterland  of  J&K  are  linked  to  the  infiltration  from across  the  border.  The  number  of  incidents  of  terrorist  violence  including encounters,  the  number  of  terrorist  neutralized  and  the  number  of  Security personnel  martyred  in  terrorist  violence  incidents  in  Jammu  and  Kashmir during the last three years and current year is as under: -

|   Sl. No. | Incidents                             |   2015 |   2016 |   2017 |   2017 (upto 29.07.2017) |   2018 (upto 29.07.2018) |
|-----------|---------------------------------------|--------|--------|--------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|         1 | No of incidents of terrorist violence |    208 |    322 |    342 |                      191 |                      308 |
|         2 | No. of encounters                     |     63 |    101 |    133 |                       69 |                       90 |
|         3 | No. of Terrorists neutralized         |    108 |    150 |    213 |                      112 |                      113 |
|         4 | No. of Security personnel martyred    |     39 |     82 |     80 |                       39 |                       49 |

## LS.US.Q.NO.3329 FOR 07.08.2018

(c) The  Government  of  India  in  tandem  with  the  State  Government,  have adopted a multi-pronged approach to contain cross  border   infiltration, which, inter-alia, include strengthening of border management  and  multi-tiered deployment along the International Border / Line of Control, and near the ever changing  infiltration  routes,  construction/maintenance    of  border  fencing, construction  of  culverts/  bridges  on  nullahs,  improved  technology,  weapons and  equipments  for  SFs,  improved  intelligence  and  operational  coordination, installation of border floodlight on the International Border (IB) and synergizing intelligence flow to check infiltration and pro-active action against terrorists within the State.

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