Over 840 police and para-military personnel sacrificed their lives in the past one year during operations or attacks on them with Uttar Pradesh topping the list with 107 such cases.

A total of 841 personnel from state police and para-military forces like BSF and CRPF were killed from September 1, 2008 and August 31 this year.

According to official figures, at least 249 policemen of state police lost their lives in naxal-affected states, with Maharashtra topping the list.

CRPF and BSF followed UP Police in causalities with 81 and 72 cases respectively.

Naxal-affected states of Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh the next to follow after UP in the number of policemen deaths with 72 and 64 casualties respectively.

Punjab Police lost 54 policemen during the period while another naxal-affected state Jharkhand had 51 casualties of policemen followed by Jammu and Kashmir (36), ITBP (33), RPF (32), West Bengal (31), SSB (27) and CISF (23).

A Commemoration day was observed by various police organisations in the national capital for them on Wednesday. National Security Advisor M K Narayanan, Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal and other senior officials were present on the occasion.

Delhi Police lost eight police officers during the period, which included Special Cell Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who was killed on September 19 during a gunbattle with suspected Indian Mujahideen terrorists who triggered serial blasts last year.

Twenty each policemen died in Orissa and Karnataka followed by Bihar (19), Assam (18), Uttarakhand (15), Madhya Pradesh (12), Gujarat (7), Manipur (5), Mizoram (5) and Nagaland (5). The National Security Guards lost three of their sharpshooters during the Mumbai terror attacks in November last year while Rajasthan Police lost three of their personnel during the period.

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