DIRECTORATE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE SERVICES

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. 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 Shimla, 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 ‘न्यायार्थ विज्ञानम्’ meaning ‘Science for Justice’ is written.