597 Suicides in the Armed Forces in Past 5 Years

According to a Dinamalar report, in a written reply presented to the Lok Sabha, Minister Arun Jaitley said that 597 defence personnel had committed suicide in the past five years. 498 of them were from the Army; 83 from the Air Force; and 16 were from the Indian Navy. 2010 was a particularly bad year because there were 116 suicides that year alone, the highest in the past five years.

There were 1,349 resignations in the armed forces in the past five years, the Minister said.