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Deepender Deswal

Tribune News Service

Hisar, October 24

An RTI application has revealed rise in the number of armed forces’ personnel killed in action in J&K ever since the NDA government came to power in mid-2014.The application filed by Hisar-based RTI activist Naresh Saini revealed five Army men and eight BSF personnel were killed from 2011 to 2014. The number of casualties tripled in two years and nine months from 2015 to September 2017, during which 39 soldiers, including 27 Army men and eight BSF personnel, were martyred.The information provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs relates to Army men and BSF personnel killed in J&K due to ceasefire violations and cross-border firing along the Indo-Pak border. The MHA diverted the query on Indo-China border.