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New Delhi: At least 59 personnel of India’s paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) died by suicide in 2025, marking the highest annual toll in the last five years.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, official data for the period 2021-2025 showed that more than 77 percent of such deaths occurred while personnel were on duty. Of the 262 suicide cases reported during the five-year period, 202 took place during duty, while the remaining occurred when personnel were on leave.<\/p>\n
The data showed that 59 CRPF personnel ended their lives in 2025, compared with 46 in 2024, 57 in 2023, 43 in 2022, and 57 in 2021. Reports further said that of the 281 personnel who died by suicide during the last five years (including 19 cases reported till July 2026), 237 belonged to the non-gazetted ranks.<\/p>\n
Among the cases reported this year, CRPF Havildar Subash Prasad (56) shot himself dead at a CRPF camp in Odisha’s Sundargarh district. In another case, CRPF trooper Amarendra Ray died by suicide at Kota Junction railway station in Rajasthan. Separately, Pradeep Kumar Kulaste of the 80th Battalion CRPF hanged himself near the New Bus Stand in the Jagdalpur area of Chhattisgarh.<\/p>\n
CRPF officials told the media that most of the suicide cases were linked to personal and family-related issues, compounded by the pressures of service, prolonged deploymnts and demanding operational duties.<\/p>\n
The CRPF, with a strength of around 325,000 personnel equipped with modern weapons, is deployed alongside the Indian Army and other Indian forces in violence affected and conflict-prone areas, including Naxalite-affected regions and Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), as well as for law-and-order duties to curb protests across India.<\/p>\n
Officials said a substantial number of CRPF personnel remain deployed in prolonged operations in IIOJK and Naxalite-affected areas, where they face sustained operational pressures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: At least 59 personnel of India’s paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) died by suicide in 2025, marking the highest annual toll in the last five years. According to Kashmir Media Service, official data for the period 2021-2025 showed that more than 77 percent of such deaths occurred while personnel were on duty. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":207255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-207254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","tag-top-story"],"yoast_head":"\n