Pursuant to the Government policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism, the State Government has taken stringent action to deal with stone pelting, including identification and arrest of stone pelters and instigators of such acts under relevant laws. The number of incidents of stone pelting and miscreants arrested in the state of Jammu and Kashmir during the last three years is as under :-
|
Year
|
Stone pelting incidents
|
Miscreants
|
|
Arrested
|
Sent to Jail
|
|
2016
|
2,653
|
10,571
|
276
|
|
2017
|
1,412
|
2,838
|
63
|
|
2018
|
1,458
|
3,797
|
65
|
The Government has also constituted a Joint Monitoring Committee involving all concerned agencies at the central level and a Multi Disciplinary Terror Monitoring Group (TMG) at the State level for sustained action against terror funding. This has, inter-alia, resulted in a significant decline in the incidents of stone pelting in 2019 so far, compared to the number of incidents during the corresponding period last year.
This was stated by the Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri G. Kishan Reddy in a written reply to question in the Rajya Sabha today.
BBB/NK/JSR/502
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