Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister
Mehbooba Mufti today said that 12 militants in Kashmir had
shunned the path of violence and returned to the mainstream in
the last three years.
She said this in the Legislative Council in reply to
questions of several members, including Qaiser Jamsheed Lone
and Ali Mohammad Dar of the National Conference (NC) and
Congress' Gulam Nabi Monga.
From 2015 to 2017, 12 militants shunned the path of
violence, but none of them gave representations for their
rehabilitation under the Rehabilitation Policy 2004, the chief
minister said.
The number of local youths joining militancy in Kashmir
went up to 126 in 2017, a sharp increase from 88 in 2016,
Mehbooba informed the House yesterday.
"As many as 66 youths joined militancy in 2015, 88 in
2016 and 126 in 2017," she said replying to a question by NC's
Ali Mohammed Sagar.
PTI
