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New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir has seen nine-fold increase in police encounters in 2021-22 highest in the country followed by Assam where such cases rose by over four times against the previous year, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said on Tuesday that there were 82 cases of police encounters in 2020-21 in the countryand the number has gone up to 151 in 2021-22.
According to the data tabled in Lok Sabha, there were just five police encounters in Jammu and Kashmir in 2020-21 and such cases have been increased to 45 in 2021-22.
Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh had 16 and six encounters in 2020-21 respectively, and numbers have come down in 2021-22 with the former registering 11 cases and the latter recording just two such cases, according to data.
There were just four police encounters in Assam in 2020-21 and the number has gone up to 18 in 2021-22, the data says.
Among other states, there were 24 police encounters in Chhattisgarh in 2020-21 and the number has risen to 30 in 2021-22.
Similarly, in Jharkhand, there were five encounters in 2020-21 and number has increased to nine in 2021-22, the data showed.
