Patna, Dec. 3: Patna High Court today directed the vigilance investigation bureau to complete the inquiry into the alleged procuring of fake Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report, within three months.

The court took a serious note in the case of the production of a fake FSL report, to get bail, which was substantiated by Patna police.

The bench of Justice Anjana Prakash also directed the vigilance to lodge an FIR against the erring officials and also submit the detailed report to the court in three months.

The court was hearing a bail application of a person who was arrested along with ganja under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act but the Centre’s counsel Dwivedi Surendra pointed out that the FSL report, produced to get bail, was a fake one.

The court had, then, on September 30 directed inspector-general (IG), Patna, IG CID, Director FSL to be personally present in the court on the next date and to explain as to what steps should be taken to prevent the production of fake FSL reports by those arrested under the Act to get bail.

The bench also directed that a fax machine would be installed at FSL within four weeks and from now onwards the reports would be sent through a fax only to the trial courts instead of courier or post.

The court, further, directed the superintendents of police (SPs) of all the 38 districts of the state to tell the vigilance about the latest position of the cases in which FSL reports are still awaited or pending.

The High Court would monitor the case.

Jagjit Pavadia, Narcotics Commissioner of India, was present at the hearing.

On October 29, the last date of hearing, IG Patna, Bhrigu Srinivasan admitted before the court that some persons of FSL, Patna, have accepted their involvements in the preparation of fake reports.

The matter pertains to the arrest of five persons under NDPS Act including one father-son duo of Radhe Prasad Chaurasia and Arvind Kumar in a police raid in August 2009. The police seized 274 kg of ganja from their possession and booked them under the NDPS Act. Later, the police filed a chargesheet against the two under various sections of the Act.

Arvind Kumar, after the lower court rejected his bail petition, approached the high court for bail producing the FSL report, which said that it was not ganja following which the high court granted him bail.

Later, his father Radhe Prasad Chaurasia filed bail application on the same grounds. This was objected by the Centre’s counsel Dwivedi Surendra who submitted that the report placed by Chaurasia’s son before the court was fake and hence a fresh report should be sought from the FSL Director.

On the court’s direction, FSL, Patna produced a fresh report, which held it otherwise, proving that there was the presence of ganja.