RTI REPLY REVEALS TOLL OF ANTI NAXAL FIGHT VIJAYALAKSHMI RAJU LAW CRITIQUE Sat, May 04, 2019, at ,12:17 PM As many as 1,125 security force personnel have laid down their lives in anti-Naxal operations since 2009, the Union home ministry said in reply to a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The maximum incidents were reported in 2009 (287) followed by 2010 (262), said the left-wing extremism (LWE) division of the ministry in the reply. The ministry gave the figures in reply to an RTI query by Noida-based lawyer and social activist Ranjan Tomar, who had sought the year-wise data on the deaths of security personnel in anti-Naxal operations. In 2011, 112 security personnel lost their lives, followed by 108 in 2012, 93 in 2013, 81 in 2014, 34 in 2015, 40 in 2016, 56 in 2017 and 52 in 2018, the reply stated. In a response to an RTI query by Tomar earlier this year, the ministry had stated 1,190 Naxals have been killed by security forces since 2010.There have been 11,567 incidents involving Naxals during the period in which 1,331 security personnel suffered injuries, it had said. Information shared by the ministry on its website says that 7,907 people have been killed in Naxal incidents between 2004 and 2018 (till July 31).As many as 90 districts in 11 states are considered as affected by Naxals, according to a reply made in Parliament by MoS (home) Hansraj Ahir on February 5. The affected states include Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. In another reply in Parliament on December 11, 2018, Ahir stated that 731 civilians and 260 security force personnel have been killed from 2015 till 2018 (November 15).