The Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Hyderabad (CFSL, Hyderabad) was established in 1967 under the Intelligence Bureau and was brought under the administrative control of Bureau of Police Research & Development (BPR&D) in 1973 along with Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Kolkata. The laboratory was situated in a small rental building at Chirag Ali Lane, Hyderabad and was shifted to its present spacious building in 1992. Presently, the CFSL, Hyderabad is under the administrative control of the Directorate of Forensic Science, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Under the Restructuring Scheme of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the CFSL, Hyderabad was declared as Centre of Excellence in Chemical Sciences and the NAA Unit at BARC, Mumbai, which was earlier under the control of CFSL, Kolkata was brought under the functional control of the Director, CFSL, Hyderabad with effect from 17.04.1998.

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Charter of Duties

• Testing – Case Examination
  
  
• Training – Training of scientists, Police Officers, Judiciary & Students of various Universities
  
  
• Research & Development – Plan & Non-Plan Research Projects and JRF scheme
  
  
• Other Activities – Procurement of equipment for other State Forensic Science Laboratories
  
  
• Funding of Extra Mural Research Projects –
  

CFSL, Hyderabad is engaged in the Research & Development in the field of Forensic Chemistry, Forensic Toxicology and Forensic Explosives, which falls under its center of excellence. The laboratory has scope of accreditation for the above mentioned areas. Two new units namely, Computer Forensics & Counterfeit Currency have been started functioning during 2005. Establishment of DNA Unit, Lie Detection Unit, Tape Authentication and Speaker Identification Unit & Brain Fingerprint Unit are in pipeline and are expected to be commenced soon. The laboratory has been declared as nodal laboratory for accreditation of other forensic science laboratories in India as per ISO/IEC-17025. In this regard the laboratory has conducted various courses for preparation of documents required for accreditation and other various requirements like uncertainty measurements etc. The officers of the laboratory have helped in getting accreditation of other forensic science laboratories such as FSL, Haryana/Andhra Pradesh/Gujarat, GEsQD, Hyderabad/Kolkata.

Scientists of CFSL, Hyderabad team in one of the crime scene

Some other forensic science laboratories namely, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Manipur are also in line of getting accreditation. The laboratory has been entrusted with conducting proficiency testing programme and inter laboratory comparison testing programme. Interested Forensic Science Laboratories can contact the Director, CFSL, Hyderabad for participation in the above mentioned programmes. The laboratory has a trained expert team who can guide the investigating officers at the scene of crime.

No. of Research Papers Published during the last 5 Years

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Accreditation Status & Scope of Accreditation

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Nature & Type of Facilities of Forensic Examination available

Some Instrumental facilities

TGA-DSC	CAPILLARY ELECTRO PHORESIS	AMINO ACID ANALYSER	HPLC- TEA	ICP-AES
GC-MS	MINI GEL ELECTRO PHORESIS	HPLC-PDA	SEM-EDXA	XRD

The laboratory has a pool of well-qualified and experienced experts who are capable of analyzing the cases pertaining to Ballistics, Biology, Chemistry including Narcotics, Explosives, Physics, Toxicology, Computer Forensics & Currency. The laboratory is equipped with latest state of art equipment, Scanning Electron Microscope coupled with Energy Dispersible X-ray Analyzer (SEM-EDXA), XRD, Comparison Microscope, TGA-DSC, Ion Chromatograph, Inductively Coupled Plasma – Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES), GC-MS, GC-FID/ECD, HPLC with PDA detector & TEA Detector, UV-VIS, Amino Acid Analyzer to name a few. Laboratory also procures LC-MS-MS, the commissioning of which is expected shortly. All the software required for the examination of cases involving cyber crimes, mobile phones and other computer crimes are also available in the laboratory. The scientists of the laboratory are fully trained in crime scene examination and to collect scientific evidence from the scene of crime.

Comparison of Bullets using Comparison Microscope (BALLISTICS)	Video Superimposition Technique (BIOLOGY)	Analysis of Petroleum Products by GLC (CHEMISTRY)	Analysis of Inorganic Explosives by IC (EXPLOSIVES)
Microscopical Examination of Physical Evidence (PHYSICS)	Toxicological Examination of Viscera (TOXICOLOGY)	Cyber Crime Examination (COMPUTER FORENSICS UNIT)	Examination of Currency (COUNTER FEIT CURRENCY EXAMINATIONUNIT)

The laboratory has a full-fledged library with about 6000 books on various technical topics of Forensic Science and also has subscription of 24 journals covering Forensic Chemistry, Toxicology, Explosives, Fire-arms, DNA, Computer Forensics etc.

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Cases/Exhibits Received and Examined by the Laboratory during last 5 years

Under the Five Year Plan Project, the following facilities have been established and are ready to be functional shortly :

1. National Bomb Data Centre from Forensic Point of View

   To help the Law Enforcement Agencies and Forensic Scientists in getting the information regarding various types of explosives and IEDs encountered in different states, to understand the trends and to help the criminal justice system a bomb data center has been proposed to be established in CFSL, Hyderabad under the X Five Year Plan Project. The above bomb data center will be fully functional with online data entry and retrieval to authenticated users shortly. The Law Enforcement Agencies and Scientists can access the information after confirming the authentication.

   
   
2. Creation of Laboratory Facility for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare Agents

   The present trend in NBC weapons causes danger to the public. It may be conducted by groups/individuals for loss of human life and damage to property. Among all forms of criminal/terrorist activity the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction is the most threatening to the security of country and world as well. The physical evidences handled by forensic science laboratories are entirely different from the proposed NBC agents. There is urgent need for the establishment of such a facility, keeping in view the emerging trends in criminal/terrorist activities. The Forensic Scientist is the first to report at the scene of crime or incident of postal mails etc along with the police personnel. The creation of laboratory setup will help to impart training to all ground level police investigators for awareness and help forensic scientists to safely collect the physical materials and forward further to defence laboratories or analyze as per his inference.

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Officers & Staff List (CFSL, Hyderabad)

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NON-TECHNICAL STAFF :

GROUP D :

NAA UNIT AT BARC, MUMBAI