| Amid low crime rate, State registers 3500 kidnapping cases in 4-yrs | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Feb 11: Although the crime rate is low in Jammu and Kashmir than most parts of the country, around 3500 kidnapping cases have been reported in the state in the last four years. As per official figures accessed by Early Times, around 3,500 kidnapping cases have been reported in the state in the last four years. This means three to four kidnapping cases are getting registered on an average daily in the state.
However, police said scores of such cases go unreported either due to remoteness of the location or their families fail to follow such cases due to the poverty and don't have photographs to show the police for investigating the matter.
According to the figures, 860 kidnapping and abduction cases were registered in 2014. The number rose to 1153 in the year 2015. During 2016 the number of kidnapping cases was 810. During 2017, around 900 cases were registered.
These cases have been registered under Section 363-369 IPC. "Many kidnapping cases are still un-solved," a senior police official said, "personnel enmity, enforced begging outside the state, love tangle, human trafficking, theft and mental unconsciousness are the main reasons for missing of people in the state." He said there were many incidents where Kashmiris and people from Jammu had gone missing outside the state and are still untraceable.
The official said that kidnapping rate was lower in J&K then other parts of India. "But it has shown an upward trend over the years. The police have solved most of the kidnapping cases in the state," the official said.
The abduction of children also gained prominence in Kashmir when a three-year-old child went missing in Habbakadal Srinagar and is still untraceable.
A youth was kidnapped and later "murdered" by two of his friends in Srinagar and had then triggered protests across the Valley. However, police after solving the case had claimed that the slain youth was in contact with a girl through social networking site Facebook and this had resulted in jealousy and heartburn in his friend, who later on with the help of another friend murdered him.
In 2011, a Pampore youth was kidnapped by three of his friends and later his body was retrieved from river Jehlum. In a strange case, a Kashmiri missing girl was traced in Punjab who was reportedly sold by his father for Rs 3,500 to a labourer 16-years-ago. |
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