DIRECTORATE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICES
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DIRECTORATE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICES |
During 1983, the then Scientific Advisory Committee to the
Cabinet (SAC-C) under the overall guidance of an Expert Committee chaired by
Prof. M. M. Sharma, FRS, recommended that the laboratories in Delhi, Calcutta
and Hyderabad must be developed as Science and Technology institutions,
functioning in an autonomous fashion. Accordingly, the Government of India
declared the forensic science institutions, as Science and Technology
institutions. Based on the observations of the Expert Group of the SAC-C and
Bureau of Police Research and Development
- BPR&D evolved a master plan for restructuring each Central
Forensic Science Laboratory - CFSL of the BPR&D into fifteen scientific
divisions. In the first phase, the three Central Forensic Science Laboratories
at Calcutta, Hyderabad, and Chandigarh were restructured into six scientific
division viz. Biology, Ballistics, Chemistry, Explosive, Physics and Toxicology. Similarly, the offices of the
Government Examiners of Questioned Documents at Shimia, Calcutta, and Hyderabad
were strengthened in terms of manpower under a directorate named Directorate of
Forensic Science - DFS. Its emblem is crested with Ashoka lion pillar in gold
supported by a green coloured circle in which a weight balance, microscope and
the acronym ‘DFS’ is written. The outer of the circle has golden wreaths. Below
it in a red banner with black border the motto in Sanskrit ‘Nyayartha Vingyanam’
meaning ‘Science for Justice’ is written.
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