Adarsh data: CBI looks to pvt firm for forensic help

The move to rope in a private agency is primarily due to the long waiting period investigators face at state-owned laboratories. At the Central Forensic Science Laboratory,or the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents (GEQD),the oldest such institution in Asia located on the premises of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory in Hyderabad’s Ramanthapur will take at least a year before the report is prepared. “We will have to wait for at least a year to get the the report,” said an officer. Deloitte,on the other hand,will aim to finish the work within a month.

While nine of the hard disks are from the office of the Urban Development (UD) Department,others were seized from the houses of the accused during the house searches. On May 13,the CBI confiscated the hard-drives of all computers in the department after the Bombay High Court pulled up the investigating agency for not probing the missing file case. “Every hard disk has to be vetted and has to be examined while the investigation is still on,as in such cases,the data procured from such seizures also aides the investigations,” said a CBI source.