Indian Army man shoots self-dead in Kashmir
Bandipora, Apr 05: An Indian Army soldier allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle in the Pannar area of north Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Sunday early morning.
Official sources told wire service—Kashmir News Observer(KNO), that the army man of 14 RR, posted at Pannar area of Bandipora shot himself while he was on duty at around 03: 45 AM.
Following the gunshot, the colleagues rushed towards the army man and found him in a pool of blood, they said, adding that the army man was taken to a nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.
Confirming the incident, a senior police officer identified the deceased as sepoy Satendra Kumar Tomar a resident of Murena MP.
He said that a case under relevant sections of law has been registered and further investigation initiated—(KNO)
Suicides in Indian armed forces
Indian media reports that from 2009 to 2013, 597 armed forces personnel committed suicide–498 from the Army, 83 from the Air Force and 16 from the Navy, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said in a written reply.
The highest number of suicides took place in the Army in 2010 when 116 troops committed suicide but the number came down to 86 in 2013, according to the figures given by the minister in his reply.
In 2018, a total of 80 army personnel committed suicide. The total number of suicides in the Air Force was 16 while in the Navy was 8, Minister of State (MoS) for Defence Subhash Bhamre told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply last week.
In 2017, the number of army men, who are suspected to have committed suicide, was 75 while in 2016, this number was 104.
Another data tabled in parliament shows that between 2011 and 2018, there were 891 deaths by suicide of members of the Indian armed forces (Army, Air Force, and Navy).
Suicides were highest in the Army, which reported that 707 personnel took their own lives between 2011 and 2018. The Air Force reported nearly 5 times fewer suicides at 148 over the eight years. The Navy has the lowest number of suicides, with 36 deaths reported over the same period.
There was a spike in suicides in the Army in 2011, when 105 deaths were reported. The next highest suicides were in 2016, with 104 deaths. Last year, there were 80 deaths by suicide in the Army.
The average deaths per year across the Indian Army, Air Force and Navy is 111. While there are an average of 88 deaths by suicide annually in the Army, the Air Force and the Navy average 18.5 and 4.5 deaths by suicide annually.
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