New Delhi, July 28, 2023 (PPI-OT): The Indian Minister of State for Home, Ajay Mishra, has said that nearly 10,000 women have gone missing from Indian illegally occupied Jammu Kashmir since 2019. Ajay Mishra told Rajya Sabha, Indian upper house, that 9,765 women in the categories above and below 18 have gone missing from their homes in Jammu Kashmir since 2019.

The figures from the report state from 2019 to 2021 are disturbing for occupied Jammu Kashmir. In these three years, there were 1,148 cases of missing girls below the age of 18 and 8,617 women aged above 18 women have gone missing. As per reports, there is no trace of these women so far.

The main reason of the missing women included the mental tension, arresting, interrogation, questioning and harassment during crackdown operations and house raids by the Indian troops, paramilitary, dreaded agency like National Investigation Agency (NIA) and State Investigation Agency (SIA) in Kashmir valley and Muslim areas of the Jammu region.

Pertinently, the Indian forces, having black laws like Public Safety Act (PSA) and Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), are unanswerable to any one of the inhuman and terror acts. The Indian defence and Home Ministries have always encouraged Indian armed forces by giving them free hand of terror in IIOJK.

Meanwhile, between 2019 and 2021, 22, 919 girls below 18 years of age and 61, 050 below the age of 18 have gone missing in the Indian capital city, New Delhi. In 2021, Maharashtra state topped the list in India. The state has reported 56,498 cases of missing women, who are above 18 years of age.

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