Director General of CRPF, Kuldeeep Singh on Thursday said that stone pelting incidents have reduced to 10% only in J&K from earlier one.
Addressing a press conference on the eve of the forces’ 82nd anniversary, Singh said that the incidents of stone pelting in the Kashmir Valley have reduced drastically and added that a total of 226 militants were killed during operations by the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir since the beginning of 2020.
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The stone-pelting incidents have now been reduced to 10 per cent of what it used to be earlier, he said.
“Singh said the CRPF recovered 378 arms and 41 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), while 275 encounters/attacks took place during the same time period.