Thiruvananthapuram: Delay in receiving forensic research document has hindered the development of one,370 circumstances registered below Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012, in various districts within the state.
Though the Section 35 (2) of the Act says that special courts making an attempt Pocso circumstances will have to dispose, as far as imaginable, the circumstances inside a length of one yr from the date of taking cognisance, 757 circumstances are pending for multiple yr without the document.
The details of the pending circumstances (accessed via TOI) have been gathered from various Pocso courts via a prime court-appointed committee, led via a prime courtroom judge, to keep watch over and track the development of trials below the Act.
The very best choice of pending circumstances is within the capital district where 463 circumstances are looking ahead to forensic experiences. Of the 463, 110 circumstances are pending for more than a yr.
The very best choice of circumstances pending in courtroom for more than a yr is in Kollam— 216 of 249 circumstances.
Kasaragod has the least choice of pending circumstances. All the 4 pending circumstances within the northern district are looking ahead to forensic experiences for more than a yr now.
Other than the everlasting forensic laboratories functioning in Kerala, the state is bobbing up with a regional forensic science laboratory (RFSL) at the strains of central forensic science laboratory in Hyderabad.
At provide, the laboratory has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram and two fully-functional regional forensic science labs at Thrissur and Kannur. There are 19 district cellular forensic labs (DMFL) in all police districts.
The headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram consists 11 divisions — physics, ballistics, biology, serology, DNA, report, civil, cyber, chemistry, explosives and polygraph.
But in lots of circumstances, the samples are sent to CFSL in Hyderabad which is extra equipped than the state laboratory.
Sources stated that lack of manpower is one of the key causes for the delay in bringing out the forensic experiences because the labs are already overburdened with circumstances.
Meanwhile, choice of circumstances being registered below Pocso Act is on the upward thrust.
In 2018, three,174 circumstances have been registered below the Pocso Act across the state, while the determine stood at 2,697 and 2,122 in 2017 and 2016, respectively.
State police leader Loknath Behera stated: “Kerala is a state where the choice of circumstances registered is prime, and subsequently the choice of circumstances referred to the forensic laboratory could also be prime. We need no less than 500 palms within the forensic laboratory, while what we've is roughly 150. Pocso circumstances are a few of the a number of circumstances being referred to forensic science laboratory. ”
Forensic science laboratory director M A Latha Devi refused to remark.
Though the Section 35 (2) of the Act says that special courts making an attempt Pocso circumstances will have to dispose, as far as imaginable, the circumstances inside a length of one yr from the date of taking cognisance, 757 circumstances are pending for multiple yr without the document.
The details of the pending circumstances (accessed via TOI) have been gathered from various Pocso courts via a prime court-appointed committee, led via a prime courtroom judge, to keep watch over and track the development of trials below the Act.
The very best choice of pending circumstances is within the capital district where 463 circumstances are looking ahead to forensic experiences. Of the 463, 110 circumstances are pending for more than a yr.
The very best choice of circumstances pending in courtroom for more than a yr is in Kollam— 216 of 249 circumstances.
Kasaragod has the least choice of pending circumstances. All the 4 pending circumstances within the northern district are looking ahead to forensic experiences for more than a yr now.
Other than the everlasting forensic laboratories functioning in Kerala, the state is bobbing up with a regional forensic science laboratory (RFSL) at the strains of central forensic science laboratory in Hyderabad.
At provide, the laboratory has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram and two fully-functional regional forensic science labs at Thrissur and Kannur. There are 19 district cellular forensic labs (DMFL) in all police districts.
The headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram consists 11 divisions — physics, ballistics, biology, serology, DNA, report, civil, cyber, chemistry, explosives and polygraph.
But in lots of circumstances, the samples are sent to CFSL in Hyderabad which is extra equipped than the state laboratory.
Sources stated that lack of manpower is one of the key causes for the delay in bringing out the forensic experiences because the labs are already overburdened with circumstances.
Meanwhile, choice of circumstances being registered below Pocso Act is on the upward thrust.
In 2018, three,174 circumstances have been registered below the Pocso Act across the state, while the determine stood at 2,697 and 2,122 in 2017 and 2016, respectively.
State police leader Loknath Behera stated: “Kerala is a state where the choice of circumstances registered is prime, and subsequently the choice of circumstances referred to the forensic laboratory could also be prime. We need no less than 500 palms within the forensic laboratory, while what we've is roughly 150. Pocso circumstances are a few of the a number of circumstances being referred to forensic science laboratory. ”
Forensic science laboratory director M A Latha Devi refused to remark.
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