India, in Infographics: Security
CRPF Has Gone 368 Days Without An Operational Death, Its Longest Stretch Since 1979; Deaths Fell From 62 A Year Under The UPA To 22 Under The Modi Government
CRPF Personnel Killed In Operations Each Year Since 1959, From The Force’s Own Roll Of Its Fallen. Switch To The Stretches Without A Death, Or Pick A Span And The Summary Recomputes.
Deaths A Year Shows CRPF Personnel Killed In Operations By Year, Split At The Exact Dates Each Government Was Sworn In. Stretches Without A Death Shows Every Gap Of 200 Days Or More Between Two Deaths. Hover Or Tap A Year For Its Worst Single Day.
Without An Operational Death
368 Days
Since 30 October 2025; Longest Since The 556 Days Ending February 1979
Deaths, UPA Years
622
62.1 A Year, May 2004 To May 2014
Deaths, Modi Government
278
22.4 A Year, Since May 2014
Deaths, 2021 To 2025
46
Against 144 In 2010 Alone
The Bottom Line
On CRPF’s Own Roll, No Member Of The Force Has Died In Operations Since 30 October 2025, The Longest Such Stretch Since 1979. Deaths Averaged 62.1 A Year In The UPA Decade And 22.4 A Year Since May 2014, And Have Stayed Between 6 And 12 A Year Since 2021.
What The Data Shows
The Longest Quiet Since 1979
The Last CRPF Operational Death On The Force’s Roll Was On 30 October 2025. By 2 November 2026 That Is 368 Days. The Last Longer Stretch Ran 556 Days, From 29 July 1977 To 5 February 1979; Since Then The Longest Had Been 315 Days, From April 2021 To February 2022.
The UPA Years
622 CRPF Personnel Died In Operations Between 22 May 2004 And 26 May 2014, 62.1 A Year. The Worst Year Was 2010, With 144, Including 75 Killed In One Ambush At Tarmetla In Dantewada On 6 April 2010 And 27 In Narayanpur On 29 June.
Since May 2014
278 Died From 26 May 2014 To 2 November 2026, 22.4 A Year; 264 In The First Ten Years, The Same Length As The UPA’s Term. The Worst Day Was Pulwama, 14 February 2019, With 40. Deaths Have Been In Single Or Low Double Digits Every Year Since 2021: 10 In 2021, 9 In 2022, 6 In 2023, 12 In 2024, 9 In 2025.
The Long Arc
Deaths Rose With The Punjab And Kashmir Insurgencies From 1987, Peaked At 100 In 1991 And 100 In 2001, And Stayed High Through The Expansion Of Operations Against Maoists In The 2000s Before Falling After 2010.
Read With Care
Whose Count This Is
The Numbers Come From CRPF’s Own Roll Of Its Fallen, Not An Independent Tally. The Roll Does Not State Its Scope; Its Last Entry, 30 October 2025, Matches CRPF’s Statement On Its Last Operational Fatality.
Checked Against The Home Ministry
For 2015 To 2024 The Yearly Totals Are Within 4 Of The Figures The Home Ministry Gave The Rajya Sabha, And Never Above Them By More Than 1: 2015: 8 Against 9, 2016: 44 Against 43, 2017: 52 Against 52, 2018: 24 Against 28, 2019: 58 Against 60, 2020: 23 Against 26, 2021: 10 Against 12, 2022: 9 Against 10, 2023: 6 Against 6, 2024: 12 Against 12.
What The Numbers Do Not Show
The Count Reflects Where CRPF Was Deployed And How Intense The Fighting Was, As Well As Equipment And Tactics. CRPF Credits Better Equipment, Training, Planning And Faster Evacuation Of The Injured; This Page Does Not Test That Claim.
Early Years
The Roll Begins In 1946 And Holds Fewer Names Than CRPF’s 2015 Compendium (2,014 For 1939 To 2015). Some Early Deaths Are Dated 1 January, Probably Where Only The Year Was Known, So Gaps Before 1980 Are Approximate.
Sources & Method
Data
CRPF Martyr’s Gallery, crpf.mha.gov.in: All 2,230 Listings And Each Person’s Detail Record (Force Number, Date Of Birth, Rank, Unit, Next Of Kin, Brief Of Incident), Read 2 November 2026. Counted By Date Of Death.
Repeat Uploads
Two Listings Count As One Person Only When Two Things Match: Force Number And Name (50 Pairs), Or Date, Name And Unit (1), Or Date, Unit And Rank With A Near-Identical Spelling (3, Aurangabad 2016). Same Names With Different Force Numbers Stay Separate. 54 Listings Merged, Leaving 2,176 People. Where One Person Has Two Dates, CRPF’s Own Incident Brief Decides.
Governments
UPA: 22 May 2004 To 26 May 2014. Modi Government: 26 May 2014 To 2 November 2026. Deaths Are Assigned By Exact Date, So 2004 And 2014 Are Split.
Data: CRPF, Martyr’s Gallery · Rajya Sabha USQ 1792 (2021) · Rajya Sabha USQ 3601 (2025).
