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Business News/ News / India/  Govt aims to make forensic teams' site visit must in crimes carrying over 6-year jail: Amit Shah
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Govt aims to make forensic teams' site visit must in crimes carrying over 6-year jail: Amit Shah

Amit Shah said the aim is to ensure that the visit of forensic team would be mandatory in those crimes that attract more than six years of imprisonment

Union Home Minister Amit Shah (ANI)Premium
Union Home Minister Amit Shah (ANI)

The Centre aims to make it mandatory for forensic teams to visit the scene of crimes that attract imprisonment of more than six years, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday. He also said that there is paucity of trained manpower in the field of forensic science, which affects the conviction rates. 

"We need to create fear in the mind of hardened criminals that they will be behind bars. To do this, you need trained manpower in forensic science, which is in shortage," he said while addressing a gathering at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) in Goa.

The home minister said the aim is to ensure that the visit of forensic team would be mandatory in those crimes that attract more than six years of imprisonment and to do this they should have teams in all 600 districts of the country. 

"In all the districts, there should be smaller forensic science labouratories and at each DySP-level (Deputy Superintendent of Police), there should be a mobile forensic van," he said. 

In order to set up this kind of infrastructure, there is a requirement of 30,000 to 40,000 people. "How can we create such an infrastructure?...That is why we require institutions providing forensic education," Shah said. 

The home minister also said the world's first forensic science university was conceived in Gujarat when Narendra Modi was the chief minister. "I am honoured that I was home minister (of Gujarat) at that time in his cabinet and even now when the National Forensic Science University is launched, I am home minister," he said.

With agency inputs 

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Published: 14 Oct 2021, 04:45 PM IST
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