New Delhi, March 18 -- The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has approved the establishment of 14 additional campuses of the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) across multiple states-- a broader push to strengthen India's criminal justice system and forensic infrastructure.

Apart from its initial campuses in Gandhinagar, Gujarat and Delhi, Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar, in a written reply in the the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, informed new NFSU campuses have been approved in Goa, Agartala (Tripura), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Dharwad (Karnataka), Guwahati (Assam), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Khordha (Odisha), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Chengalpattu (Tamil Nadu), Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh. ...