More than 29,000 posts of police personnel are vacant in Gujarat, the state government has told the High Court.
Out of 1,25,350 sanctioned posts, 29,050 are vacant, the government said in an affidavit filed.
A division bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha P Mayee was hearing a suo motu PIL initiated following the Supreme Court’s 2017 directions regarding framing of guidelines about damage caused to public properties and filling up of vacant police posts.