New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday informed that since the scrapping of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir on August 5 till date, 765 persons have been arrested in 190 cases registered relating to stone pelting and law & order. From 1st January, 2019 to 4th August, 2019, 361 such cases were registered.
The Government has initiated multipronged policies to check the stone pelting menace and has succeeded in curbing it to the extent that a large number of troublemakers, instigators and mob mobilizers have been identified and various preventive measures have been taken against them which include detention under PSA and preventive arrests, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said in a statement.
Investigation has revealed that various separatist organisations and activists which are part of Hurriyat have been behind the incidents of stone pelting in Kashmir valley. NIA has chargesheeted 18 persons in the terror funding cases so far.
The Government informed that 950 incidents of ceasefire violations along Line of Control from across the border in Jammu and Kashmir were reported during August, 2019 to October, 2019.