Union home minister Amit Shah to lay foundation of forensic institute in Lucknow tomorrow

LUCKNOW: Union home minister Amit Shah will lay the foundation of the state’s first-of-its-kind forensic institute in Lucknow on Sunday before travelling to Mirzapur to lay the foundation of Maa Vindhavasini corridor. State DGP Mukul Goel said, the institute will be affiliated to the Gujarat-based National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) and will function under the ministry of home affairs.
Spread over 50 acres in Piparsand locality of Sarojininagar, the institute has been named Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science (UPSIFS).
Lucknow police commissioner DK Thakur, district magistrate Abhishek Prakash and other senior officers visited the site to oversee preparations for August 1 foundation-laying ceremony. The institute will offer studies in the field of police administration and forensic science. A Center of Excellence is being set up by NFSU to provide modern infrastructure and technology in scientific crime investigation, which will be a separate unit on 5acre land on the campus.

A senior police officer said, India would also seek technological aid from Israel, which houses the world’s most hi-tech state-of-the-art facility in forensic science. “The idea to set up an institution, which will not only produce world-class forensic experts, but also have our own centre of excellence to carry out research in crime investigation, cyber security, behavioural sciences and criminology,” he said.
To improve policing in Uttar Pradesh, an MoU was inked between Uttar Pradesh State Institute of Forensic Science and APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University in May to introduce artificial intelligence and its applications in digital forensics.