State Must Provide Infrastructure & Manpower To Forensic Labs: Orissa High Court Stresses On Timely Submission Of Chemical Test Reports
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State Must Provide Infrastructure & Manpower To Forensic Labs: Orissa High Court Stresses On Timely Submission Of Chemical Test Reports

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The Orissa High Court has recently ordered the State to ensure proper infrastructure and man-power for effective functioning of the Forensic Science Laboratories. Underlining the importance of timely receipt of chemical examination reports in criminal cases as well as the possible hindrances in deciding cases in case of non-submission of such reports, the Single Bench of Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo observed – “The State cannot cock a snook at its duty to provide the required infrastructure and manpower to the forensic laboratories in the interest of justice. Justice Sahoo stressed that chemical examination reports are quite vital in such kind of cases and thus, it is the duty of the concerned Magistrate to ensure that it is supplied to the accused along with police papers at the time of commitment of the case to the Court of Session in view of Section 207 of CrPC and Rule 50 of the General Rules & Circular Orders of the High Court of Judicature, Orissa. “The Director/Deputy Director of the Forensic Science Laboratories should send the chemical examination report to the concerned Court within a reasonable period preferably within two months of the receipt of seized exhibits for analysis,” it added. In the instance case, the Court noted the omission on the part of the Public Prosecutor in drawing attention of the trial Court towards non-receipt of chemical examination report.

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