635 terrorists killed in 2 yrs, 42 outfits banned: Centre

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 9

The government today informed the Lok Sabha that 42 terror outfits, like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, had been banned for their involvement in various acts of terrorism, largely sponsored from across the border.

In a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, Minister of State (MoS) for Home G Kishan Reddy also said 635 terrorists were killed by security forces in J&K between 2018 and 2020, while 115 civilians lost their lives to terror violence in the Union Territory during the period.

Art 370 abrogation: 173 still under detention

The government said around 173 people, involved in separatist activities, stone pelting and overground workers of terror outfits, continued to be under detention since the Article 370 was abrogated in August 2019 in J&K. According to G Kishan Reddy, 627 people were detained and 454 were released gradually.

Three civilians were also killed in the hinterland due to the terrorist violence in the last three years, he added.

“The government has declared 42 organisations as terrorist groups and listed their names in the First Schedule of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Terrorism in India has largely been sponsored from across the border,” the minister said.

In response to a separate question, Reddy’s colleague in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), MoS Nityanand Rai, said 61 cases of infiltration were reported along the Indo-Pakistan border in the last two years, 1,045 infiltrations along the Indo-Bangladesh border and 63 along the Indo-Nepal border.

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