CBI gets a new forensic laboratory in Navi Mumbai

The 3,000-sq ft laboratory,inaugurated by Special Director of CBI (headquarters) V K Gupta,was scheduled to kickstart work by the end of 2010. The agency,which has been actively looking into major cases such as the Adarsh Co-operative housing society scam,had to approach a private entity to decode data collected during investigations.

“A local centre will only help us tide over delays caused due to the absence of scientific experts. Also we will have our own experts to help us build the case and will come handy during the trial,” said a senior CBI official.

The CBI is also awaiting another 10-storeyed building with a 6,836-sq m built-up area in Bandra-Kurla-Complex,which it claims will house interrogation facilities,forensic labs and facilities to train personnel to tackle new-age crimes,under one roof.

Document verification and polygraph tests of cases investigated by the CBI in Pune,Nagpur,Goa and Gandhinagar in Gujarat will also be conducted here.