Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of the Karnataka campus of National Forensic Science University at Dharwad today
Bhoomi Poojan and foundation stone laying of 9th National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) campus at Dharwad, Karnataka done on 28 January 2023, Saturday, by the honourable Minister of Home Affairs and Cooperation, Government of India, Shri. Amit Shah. Several dignitaries including Chief Minister of Karnataka Shri Basavaraj Bommai and Union Minister Shri Pralhad Joshi were present on the occasion
In his address, Shri Amit Shah said that if forensic science experts are not available, then the contribution of forensic science to the criminal justice system cannot be realised .
Mr. Shah, in his speech also mentioned that there is a huge difference between studying forensic directly after class 12th (doing BS and MS in Forensic Science) and getting training in Forensic Science after BSc. or MSc. (from other backgrounds) thus when Mr. Modi become the Prime Minister of India then they decided to bring the NFSU to the National Level
Mr Shah also said that the government is soon going to amend the Evidence Act and by amending the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act, they will be further strengthened for the mechanism of punishment on a scientific basis, so that all the observations of forensic science can be used to punish the criminal.
Mr Shah said that for some Heinous crimes, forensic investigation needs to be mandatory , and to make it mandatory of forensic investigation to cases with punishment more than six years, the country needs to produce 8000 to 10,000 forensic experts per year for next nine years. He also mentioned that before establishment of NFSU the capacity of producing forensic experts per year was only 500 which can never fulfil the demand and after establishment of NFSU it reached up to 1000 experts per year.
He said that NAFIS App has been launched recently which has data of about 1.5 crore fingerprints. He informed that within three months of its launch, 10,000 cases including a 22 years old case, were resolved immediately. He said that this would be further strengthened, for this a scientific arrangement has been made in the National Crime Records Bureau to store the fingerprints of all the prisoners.
