Decline in number of incidents of terror during 2009 (India)

Source: PIB

RAJYA SABHA

As per available information, details of the number of incidents, casualties of civilians, security personnel and number of terrorist/extremist killed and arrested in the State of Jammu & Kashmir and North-Eastern States are as under:-

Jammu & Kashmir

Year	No. of incidents	No. of SFs Killed	No. of Civilians Killed	No. of Terrorists Killed	No. of Terrorists Arrested
2008	708	75	91	339	305
2009	499	64	78	239	187
2010 (Up to 31st  January)	28	4	4	15	6*

*Figures of terrorist arrested upto 15.2.2010

                                                                                                                                   

North Eastern States

Year	No. of incidents	No. of SFs Killed	No. of Civilians Killed	No. of Extremists Killed	No. of Extremists Arrested
2008	1561	46	466	640	2566
2009	1297	42	264	571	2162
2010 (Up to 31st  January)	85	2	12	31	149

            Besides the above, as per available information, in areas other than those mentioned above, in the year 2007, major terrorist incidents/bomb blasts occurred, explosion in two unreserved coaches of Samjhauta/Attari Express at Diwana near Panipat, bomb expolsion at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, bomb blasts at Lumbini Park and Gokul Chat Bhandar, Hyderabad, bomb blast at Ajmer Sharief, Ajmer, Rajasthan, bomb blast at Srinagar Cinema Hall, Ludhiana and 5 bomb blasts in local premises in 3 cities in UP, namely, Varanasi, Faizabad & Lucknow.   In these incidents 143, persons lost their lives.   Further, in the year 2008, major terrorist incidents/bomb blasts occurred at CRPF Group Centre, Rampur(U.P.), Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Malegaon(Maharashtra) and Modasa (Gujarat).   In these incidents, 168 persons lost their lives.   There was no major terrorist attack in the year 2009.   However, a bomb blast took place at Pune on 13.2.2010 wherein 17 persons were killed.

            There are bilateral mechanisms established with out neighbouring countries in which our security concerns are shared.  Besides, India has Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty in Criminal Matters (MLATs) with 26 countries, in which issues relating to combating of terrorism are taken up.   India is signatory to all 13 U.N. Conventions on Counter Terrorism.

            India is a member of Asia Pacific group on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Financing of Terrorism and has Observer status at Financial Action Task Force.   FIU-IND is a member of the Egmont Group.

This was stated  by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Shri Ajay Maken, in written reply to a question  in the Rajya Sabha  today.

RS/KKA