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Responding to concerns raised about the huge vacancies in the police force in six states, the Supreme Court today said it will monitor the filling of vacancies in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Jharkhand, West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. While taking a serious note of the issue, the Apex Court bench comprising Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and
Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul observed that vacancies in the police is a problem confronting other states too, but for the time being the court would focus on these states for filling up the
shortfall. “At the moment we will monitor the filling up of vacancies in (these) six states. We therefore hereby direct the Chief Secretaries of these states to assist the court personally
or nominate an officer of Joint Secretary for the purpose” the bench said. Asking the states to come up with a roadmap for filling the vacancies, the court also underscored the scale of
vacancies with figures for the six states – Uttar Pradesh (150,679), Bihar (34,532), Jharkhand (26,307), West Bengal (37,325), Karnataka (24,388) and Tamil Nadu (19,804).
