State Police Chief gives SPs, CPs 100 hours to submit 30-year dossier on anti-national arrests

Gujarat Director General of Police (DGP) Vikas Sahay on Friday issued a strict 100-hour deadline to all Commissioners of Police and District Superintendents of Police across the state, directing them to prepare a comprehensive dossier of individuals arrested for anti-national activities over the last three decades.

According to the communication issued by the DGP, all city and district police chiefs have been instructed to immediately begin the process of identifying and verifying every person who has, in the past 30 years, been booked in cases relating to anti-national activities at any police station in Gujarat.

Officials have been asked to first compile a preliminary list of all such individuals, followed by a detailed verification exercise to confirm the status, background and current activities of each person. The DGP has emphasised that the verification process must be thorough, leaving no gaps in record-checking, field enquiries or confirmation of case histories.

Once the verification is completed, police units must prepare a final consolidated dossier. This final report — containing updated profiles, case details, and assessments — must be submitted to the State Police Chief within 100 hours.

Senior officials said the exercise aims to ensure an updated state-level database of individuals linked to offences deemed to be against national interests, and to strengthen monitoring mechanisms across districts.

Sources in the police department described the direction as an “urgent state-wide compliance order” intended to streamline intelligence inputs and enhance coordinated vigilance.