Agencies
NEW DELHI, July 22: The armed forces lost 597 personnel to suicide in the last five years while 1,349 officers quit the army during the same period, Rajya Sabha was informed today.
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.
The Army, which is the largest of the three services, also saw 1,349 officers quitting the force taking premature retirement in the last five years. |
