Nadu, West Bengal and NCT of Defhi have furnished partial information. The Commission is following up on this matter and requests the remaining StatesIUTs to expedite their reports. (L) IMPROVEMENT OF FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORIES 3.48 The Commission has received a number of reports to the effect that criminal cases delayed for a variety of reasons, are also often further delayed because matters remain pending in Forensic Science Laboratories. This has added yet another impediment to the speedy dispensation of justice. Realising the critical importance of improving the functioning of the Forensic Science Laboratories, as this is essential to the proper administration of the criminal justice system, the Commission felt it was necessary to look Into the problems bedeviling these laboratories with a view to evolving guidelines fot their bettsr working. The Commission accordingly convened a meeting on 3 February 1998 to discuss the issue. It was then decided that a Core Group should be formed to go into the problems of Forensic Science Laboratories and to suggest measures to resolve them. A Core Group was themafter constituted, comprising Dr. R.K. Tewari, Chief Forensic Scientist, Bureau of Police Research and Development, New Delhi as convenor with the Directors of the Forensic Sciences Laboratories of Haryana and Rajasthan as Members together with the Director in-charge of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory of the Central Bureau of Investigation. A copy of the Memorandum setting up this Core Group is at Annexure IV. The Group has since completed its work and it was due to be submitted to the Commission shortly after the end of the period covered by this report.