765 people arrested for throwing stone since Article 370: Home Ministry

New Delhi: The Home Ministry on Tuesday said security forces had arrested 765 people in Jammu and Kashmir since the scrapping of Article 370 of the Constitution for their alleged involvement in stone throwing incidents and that multi-pronged policies were adopted to check it.
Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy also said there was a decline in the incidents of stone throwing since August 5, when the Centre announced scrapping of the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370. “Since August 5, 2019 to November 15, 2019, 765 people have been arrested in 190 cases registered relating to stone pelting/law and order. From January 1, 2019 to August 4, 2019, 361 such cases were registered,” the minister said, replying to a written question in the Lok Sabha.
Mr Reddy said the government had adopted multi-pronged policies to check stone throwing incidents and had succeeded in curbing it to the extent that a large number of troublemakers, instigators and mob mobilisers were identified and various preventive measures taken against them, including detention under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) and preventive arrests.
“Investigation has revealed that various separatist organisations and activists, which are part of the Hurriyat, have been behind the incidents of stone throwing in the Kashmir valley. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has chargesheeted 18 persons in terror-funding cases so far,” he said.