Stone pelting incidents down to 424 this year from 1,590 in 2016

Statistics show that 75 terrorists were killed and 252 arrested.

Effective action by the security forces has reduced the number of stone pelting incidents in the Kashmir Valley, the CRPF has said. The chief of the CRPF, R R Bhatnagar said that 1,590 incidents were registered last year. This year, the latest figures are 424.

"It is a mix of what the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is doing, it is a mix of State police and security forces doing the kind of control and hence the efforts of the law breakers, stone throwers and violent mobs is effectively blocked and hence stone throwing has gone down," he told reporters.

Our assessment is that the situation in the Kashmir Valley has improved adding the CRPF was coordinating with the NIA in its crackdown against separatists and their operatives, the CRPF chief also said.

Statistics show that 75 terrorists were killed and 252 arrested. Further it was also revealed that 118 arms were seized by security forces in the Valley.

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