laying stress on need of making more scientific investigation so that conviction rate could be increased, chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav, flagged-off modernised Mobile Forensic Van, here on Monday morning. “Under adverse conditions presently faced by the police personnel, the new forensic mobile laboratory would proved to be new mile stone for the Department in making more scientific investigation by collecting maximum evidences from the incident spot”,claimed Akhilesh Yadav, soon after giving green signal to the new vans. He said that the criminals do not wanted to leave any evidence at the incident spot but once equipped with all kind of latest gadgets, the sleuths of the police department would not find it hard to collect vital evidences which would not just helped them to identify the criminals involved in the crime, but later at the trial stage also, those evidences would facilitate in getting the accused convicted also.
Director General of Police, AK Jain, who was also present in the function claimed that in the first phase, they were provided mobile forensic labs at zonal head-quarters i.e lucknow, Agra, Kanpur, Gorakhpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Meerut and Bareilly Zones. He said that in the second phase, 67 more districts of the State would be equipped with similar vans that would enable the sleuths to collect Biology, serology, chemical, explosives, narcotics, etc evidences from the spot. It may be mentioned that so far only lucknow, Agra, Varanasi had forensic science laboratories while one in Moradabad is still under construction.