The Bihar government would be beginning a massive recruitment drive to draft about 24,000 constables, 4,500 sub-inspectors and 2,000 drivers in August. The process will begin by August-end and would be completed by 2023. DGP Gupteshwar Pandey said, "The excise is to fill the vacant posts in the ranks of constabulary and sub-inspectors."

A whopping 5.28-lakh police-posts are lying vacant in the country of which nearly 1.29-lakh are in Uttar Pradesh, 50,000 in Bihar and 49,000 in West-Bengal. There are 23,79,728 sanctioned posts in police-forces of all states of which 18,51,332 were occupied as on January 1, 2018, according to Home Ministry statistics. The Tamil-Nadu Police has 22,420 posts vacant against its sanctioned strength of 1,24,130 personnel.

A woman from a Bihar village was rescued as her husband and in-laws were trying to set her ablaze for "not being able to bear a child," the police have said. The woman's husband has been arrested. The woman, who lives in Bhojpur district, claimed she was often beaten up by her in-laws because she was unable to conceive. She got married 13-years-ago.