At least 79 terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir after Article 370 abrogation

The government today told the Lok Sabha that 79 terror incidents had taken place in Jammu and Kashmir after Article 370 was scrapped on August 5, 2019. Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy, however, said no major terror attack had taken place between August 5, 2019 and March 10, 2020.

In a written reply to a question, the Union Minister said in the 79 incidents, 49 terrorists were neutralised.

To another query, he said investigation into the February 2019 attack on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama was still on. Responding to a question on Ladakh, he said as per the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council Act, 1997 continued to be applicable to the Union Territory of Ladakh. He also said 450 persons, including stone-pelters, over-ground workers and separatists, were in preventive detention in various jails.

Source: Tribune India