The Enforcement Directorate has embarked on a major modernisation drive with a kitty of Rs 18 crore to spend on setting up six state-of-the-art cyber forensic laboratories and a master server in Delhi that will be connected with all the zonal offices across the country for digitally storing records and evidence gathered during searches.
ED's modernisation is in an advanced stage and likely to be completed within this year with six cyber laboratories - two in Delhi and one each in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chandigarh and Chennai - already set up and servers installed at several offices. This would help the agency in carrying out forensic examination of evidences through these laboratories within a week instead of waiting years for the central forensic science laboratory (CFSL) to authenticate its reports.
"It took two years for reports to come from CFSL, now forensic examination reports can be completed within a week at our own cyber labs," a top ED official told TOI. This has given ED an in-house expertise to decode and authenticate seized records resulting in faster investigation.
Source: TOI
