Jammu, May 29 -- The Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday designated two nodal officers for the effective rollout and streamlined execution of the MedleaPR, a dedicated portal for uploading medico-legal reports (MLRs) and postmortem reports (PMRs) which play a crucial role in criminal prosecutions.

In an order, Health and Medical Education Secretary Syed Abid Rasheed Shah said from now onwards all MLRs and PMRs shall be processed and issued through the MedleaPR portal hosted at the State Data Centre.

"In exceptional and urgent situations where technical issues prevent online reports (the reasons to be recorded in writing on the report), the MLRs and PMRs may be issued through offline mode, however, the report so issued shall also be ...