A CRPF jawan, posted in Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Saturday (April 20) reportedly discovered dead.
Senior officers from the Army headquarters have confirmed the incident that the deceased identified as Muneer Ahmed Khan C/162 was found unconscious under mysterious circumstances in his post and when he was rushed to the army hospital. The doctors pronounced him as dead on arrival.
A case has been registered at Handwara police station after the soldier discovered lifeless in Handwara.
Jammu and Kashmir Police records revealed a rise in suicide attempts in 2021, with 586 cases reported in the Valley in 2021, compared to 472 cases in 2020. The trend was highlighted also by data from the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), which recorded 365 suicide attempts and 127 deaths between February 2021 and August 2022.
A report by the National Human Rights Commission of India on May 21, 2004, says that 20,000 people have attempted to die by suicide in the 14 years of socio-political unrest in Kashmir, from 1990 to 2004. Of these, 3,000 attempts resulted in death, mostly among those aged 16 to 25. Militancy, closely followed by suicide, reportedly causes the highest number of deaths in Kashmir.
As per the NCRB report, Jammu and Kashmir accounted for nearly 30 per cent of the total number of suicide cases in India in 2022, thus maintaining a consistent pattern observed over the years. After the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, the UT witnessed a spike, with over 450 cases of suicide—the highest in a decade. The number escalated further in 2021, with 586 cases, says the NCRB report.
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