L-G launches blockchain tech for DFSL forensic app

New Delhi: Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena launched Blockchain Technology in the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) for e-forensic application of the Delhi Forensic Science Laboratory (DFSL) and Delhi Police at Raj Niwas on Thursday.

The launch event was attended by the Chief Secretary, Delhi Police Commissioner, 14 probationary IAS Officers of the Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram and Union Territory (AGMUT) cadre and several other senior officers.

While thanking the Home Minister for spearheading this technology, Saxena also expressed that better intra-departmental coordination can be established, thereby ensuring an efficient and improved system for ordinary people.

Blockchain Technology will ensure that all material evidence submitted from the crime scene to the DFSL will remain free of human interface and interference. It will only be available to authorised individuals in four stages of analysis, keeping all data free from tampering and ensuring transparency, accountability and greater security, informed the L-G’s office.

The L-G’s office further said, “It will also help to automate the entire forensic workflow starting from police to the FSL and the data entered by the Investigating Officer at the police station level to the FSL without disclosing the details such as FIR, name of parties, etc. which will ensure confidentiality.”

The technology can be used to store land records, birth and death certificates, caste and income certificates in individual digital lockers with its unlimited capacity and no restriction on storage period.

Delhi Police have trained approximately 1,500 personnel on the usage and over 3,000 forensic samples are being processed and analysed. They also gave 225 police stations across the city QR code scanners and printers to facilitate the process.