Union Home Minister Amit Shah and others at the All India Forensic Science Summit 2025 organised by NFSU, in New Delhi on Monday.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday (April 14, 2025) said that the Ministry is working on an agreement to allow certain samples received by government-owned forensic science laboratories (FSL) to also be analysed by private laboratories.
Mr. Shah said there is a need for 30,000 trained professionals to visit every crime scene where the punishment is more than seven years as per the new criminal laws. He noted that each year, around 36,000 students will graduate from the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), many of whom will go on to work in private forensic laboratories as well.
The Minister said that due to the farsightedness of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government established NFSU in 2020, while three new criminal laws came into force in 2024. He said that seven campuses of NFSU have been established in different States of the country and nine more campuses will be established in the next six months. Apart from these, the establishment of 10 more campuses is also proposed.
Paying tribute to B.R. Ambedkar on his birth anniversary, Mr. Shah said that Babasaheb worked to finalise the Constitution of India. “Our Constitution is not just a book. It has a system for the protection of the body, property and honour of every citizen and forensic science is now playing a very useful role in strengthening the criminal justice system associated with the protection of these three,” Mr. Shah said.
Addressing the All India Forensic Science Summit 2025 organised by NFSU, he emphasised the need to categorise offenders into habitual criminals, those driven to crime by circumstances, and those who committed crimes out of necessity. He stressed on the importance of providing psychological counselling to such individuals within jails, with the goal of encouraging them to become responsible citizens.
Published – April 14, 2025 10:37 pm IST
