KL Report
SRINAGAR
Forensic Scientific Laboratory (FSL) of Jammu and Kashmir Police has become first testing laboratory India to have cleared all the pending tests in a record period of two years.
The lab which is all set for shift to newly constructed state of the art building in Bemina had nearly three thousand tests of narcotics, poisoning and other such cases gathering dust forcing authorities to issue a circular regarding the prioritizing of the cases on merit.
“We had nearly 3,000 cases pending in the lab some two years back. SHO’s, IO’s and DYSP’s used to pick up their cases out of turn and get the tests done which resulted in the culmination of thousands of those cases who were followed by none,” Director FSL Inayat Khan told a local news agency, KNS.
He said that the practice forced him to issue a notice asking his staff not to pick and choose the cases, “instead put extra efforts to clear the backlog.”
“By virtue of the notice, only Zonal IGPs, Vigilance Commissioner and IG Crime can prioritize the cases based on the merit, and the end result is that we don’t have any of the backlog in the lab. We just have now 100 to 200 routine cases in the lab as of now,” Khan added.
The Director FSL revealed that the lab would be shortly shifted to its new complex at Bemina which has already been inaugurated by Chief Minster Omar Abdulah.
“There were some short comings which are being done away by the Police Housing Corporation and hopefully we would be shifting there very soon,” he said.
The state of the art building has been raised at an estimated cost of Rs 10 crore and is being considered one of the leading modern labs in the country.
