A Statewide audit of people once booked for ‘anti-national’ activities has given Gujarat police a clear picture of how many of them remain within reach of law enforcement. The verification drive, covering three decades of cases, has now been completed, Director General of Police Vikas Sahay said on Monday (November 24, 2025).
Police records showed 31,834 people had been booked over the last 30 years under laws dealing with terrorism, arms, narcotics, explosives, petroleum products and fake currency. In the verification that followed, 11,880 were found to be living at the addresses listed in the case files, while 2,326 had died, Mr .Sahay said
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Those who could not be located will be the focus of a fresh round of checks. “We will move to a second phase for the ones who were not found. An SOP will be prepared and all units will be instructed to trace their present whereabouts and activities,” he said.
Mr. Sahay initiated the verification on November 17, shortly after the Gujarat ATS arrested three persons for allegedly plotting a terror attack, a development linked to a subsequent counter-terror operation in Faridabad and a blast near Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10. These incidents prompted a direction to all police stations to update their lists of individuals with a past record of “anti-national” activity.
