Gujarat police complete verification of 31,834 people booked for ‘anti-national’ activities

A Statewide audit of radical erstwhile booked for ‘anti-national’ activities has fixed Gujarat constabulary a wide representation of however galore of them stay wrong scope of instrumentality enforcement. The verification drive, covering 3 decades of cases, has present been completed, Director General of Police Vikas Sahay said connected Monday (November 24, 2025).

Police records showed 31,834 radical had been booked implicit the past 30 years nether laws dealing with terrorism, arms, narcotics, explosives, petroleum products and fake currency. In the verification that followed, 11,880 were recovered to beryllium surviving astatine the addresses listed successful the lawsuit files, portion 2,326 had died, Mr .Sahay said

Those who could not beryllium located volition beryllium the absorption of a caller circular of checks. “We volition determination to a 2nd signifier for the ones who were not found. An SOP volition beryllium prepared and each units volition beryllium instructed to hint their contiguous whereabouts and activities,” helium said.

Mr. Sahay initiated the verification connected November 17, soon aft the Gujarat ATS arrested 3 persons for allegedly plotting a panic attack, a improvement linked to a consequent counter-terror cognition successful Faridabad and a blast adjacent Delhi’s Red Fort connected November 10. These incidents prompted a absorption to each constabulary stations to update their lists of individuals with a past grounds of “anti-national” activity.

“During our exercise, we created a database of 31,834 persons who were booked for superior crimes related to the Arms Act, NDPS Act, possession of explosives and petroleum, fake Indian currency related cases and coercion related cases successful the past 30 years. A thorough cheque was conducted astatine the section constabulary presumption level. Of these, 11,880 were recovered contiguous during this verification,” said Mr. Sahay.

Unit heads were past asked to behaviour a elaborate reappraisal of each person’s existent status. Local constabulary interviewed the 11,880 radical who were traced and began preparing dossiers connected them wrong the adjacent 100 hours. The workout besides revealed that immoderate connected the database present reside extracurricular Gujarat.