New Delhi, Jan. 3 -- The Central government has decided to invest Rs 30,000 crore to establish a network of forensic labs across the country in the next five years and a forensic university or a Central Forensic Lab by 2029 in every state.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday made the announcements while chairing a meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Home Affairs at Sri Vijaya Puram in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The subject of the meeting was the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) and National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU). The Union Ministers of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai, Bandi Sanjay Kumar, members of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee, Union Home Secretary, ...