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Delhi Police was also in favour of setting up regional
Delhi Police was also in favour of setting up regional FSLs, as was proposed by Delhi government earlier, instead of the government's latest proposal to build a 12-storey building alongside its Rohini FSL to house additional labs.
The court, however, said it was satisfied with the actions proposed by the government and added it was to be seen whether the proposals would be acted upon and whether expected results would be achieved.
Delhi government, thereafter, said it would submit a detailed report within six weeks containing the turnaround time in testing of samples, where they would be stored, number of samples tested at each lab and the capacity of each lab.
The central government, meanwhile, said that it would file its "concrete proposals" regarding increasing the number of policemen in the city on the next date of hearing.
The court had on May 19 termed as insufficient the steps taken by the Centre to improve the overall security situation in the national capital and rapped it for not providing "concrete proposals" to deal with the issue.
The bench had also pulled up Delhi government saying "nobody was serious" despite the fact that thousands of samples were pending in forensic science laboratories due to which probe in criminal cases were hampered.
The court had earlier directed the Centre to increase manpower in police while Delhi government was asked to set up more forensic labs.
The court was hearing a PIL initiated by it after the December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gangrape case, in which it has been giving directions from time to time with regard to improving crime investigation and protection of women. HMP ABA PPS PAL