Vadodara:Gujarat Government was going to recruit 17,500 candidates for the post of police constable soon, a senior official said here. The process would start within a week.

Inspector General G S Malik, who is the chairman of Police Constable Recruitment Board, told PTI that it was for the first time in the state’s history such a large police recruitment drive would be undertaken.

The process would start within a week, he added.

Talking about the rape case against Jayesh Patel, founder trustee of Parul University here, Malik said the police would seek his further custody as his remand ends tomorrow.

A special prosecutor would be appointed in the case, he added.

Patel is accused of raping a girl studying in the second year of nursing college in the university.

PTI