NEW DELHI: Incidents of shelling from across the Indo-Pakistan border in J&K have been rising, with 658 ceasefire violations recorded in the first two months of this year, which led to martyrdom of four security personnel.
Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, MoS (Home) G Kishan Reddy said incidents of shelling/ceasefire violations had risen to 5,133 in 2020 from 3,479 in 2019 and 2,140 in 2018.
However, he added that there had been a significant decrease in terror incidents in the past three years, with terror attacks in J&K falling from 614 in 2018 and 594 in 2019 to 244 in 2020. Also till February 28 this year, 15 terror incidents had been recorded. While civilians killed were almost at the same level over the last three years, the number of fatal casualties among security forces fell from 91 in 2018 and 80 in 2019 to 62 in 2020. Four security personnel were martyred in the first two months of this year.
Infiltration attempts into J&K fell to 99 in 2020 from 216 in 2019 and 328 in 2018. Till January 1 this year, not a single infiltration attempt was recorded.