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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

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY & FORENSIC SCIENCE The National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science - NICFS (formerly the ‘Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science’) came into existence on 4th January, 1972 on the recommendations of a Committee appointed by the University Grants Commission to look into the applied aspects of education, training and research in the fields of Criminology and Forensic Science to commensurate with the growing needs of the country in general and the Criminal Justice System in India in particular.  In September, 1976, the Institute was constituted as a separate department under the Ministry of Home Affairs headed by a full time Director. Over the years, the Institute has grown from strength to strength and has developed as a unique Institution, which trains, in one place, the higher level functionaries of the entire criminal justice system, i.e. the Judiciary, the Police, the Correctional Services, Directorate of Prosecution etc., not on