Motihari, Feb. 4: A mobile forensic laboratory, which was proposed to expedite the disposal of session tribal cases, may soon hit East Champaran roads.

Vehicle equipped with forensic laboratory is likely to come in Motihari to help litigants fulfil their purposes without visiting Patna or Muzaffarpur.

“The state police headquarters has given a nod to the proposal,” said East Champaran superintendent of police Paras Nath.

He added that according to a direction from the police headquarters, a driver has been sent from Motihari to bring the vehicle from Patna.

“If the mobile lab comes to Motihari, it would expedite the investigation into serious criminal cases,” Nath said.

According to a senior police official, the lab, equipped with modern gadgets would function under the strict surveillance of experienced officers of the Crime Investigation Department (CID).

The lab would cover three adjoining districts and three officials of the Crime Investigation Department would be posted much to the relief of litigants, who often face cases related to murder, arms act and narcotics, he added.

“Investigations into cases, which were usually affected because of delay in filing forensic test reports will now be taken up swiftly. Slack police officials would not get any chance to delay investigations anymore,” said an official on condition of anonymity.

According to sources in the district hospital’s post-mortem section, more than 150 viscera samples collected after autopsy conducted over the victims of un-natural death are preserved in the hospital for more than two years and are awaiting turn to be taken to the State Forensic Laboratory for tests.

When contacted, senior criminal lawyer and president of the District Bar Association S.P. Deokuliar, told The Telegraph that despite best efforts of the Bar and Bench, nearly 100 cases of serious criminal nature are pending for disposal in the sessions courts for forensic examination reports.

Dhrub Pandey of Bahadurpur village under Govindganj police station area in East Champaran district, whose son Pramod Pandey was killed on September 16, 2009, said: “Despite my repeated petitions to the court, several officials of the police department and also to the State Forensic Laboratory, the report is yet to filed. Thus, my son’s case remains to be solved.”

The Govindganj police had registered a P.S case No: 123/ 2009 in the concerned incident.

Mobile crime labs allow investigators to bring high-end technology to the scene of crime for faster and more efficient processing.

All equipment necessary for evaluation and preliminary analyses of crime scenes can be transported directly to the scene.

The mobile laboratory can also be used for forensic training and disaster response.