Hyderabad:

A. Sharada, deputy director at the AP Police Academy, has been appointed director of the AP Forensic Science Laboratory with full additional charge. She is the second woman to head the FSL, after Gayatri in the 1990s.

The state government will be formalising her appointment as FSL director after a meeting of the departmental promotion committee. Her tenure lasts till June 2015. O.N. Murthy retired as director on September 30.

Sharada joined APFSL as assistant director in 1980. She did her post-graduation in biochemistry and psychology and has completed courses in cyber law.

Sharada is an expert in DNA fingerprinting and biology, and written more than a dozen books. She has submitted papers on the proposed DNA Bill at the All India Police Science Congress.

Sharada said there was no pendency of cases at the forensics lab, but for one or two complicated cases. She said that new recruits would be inducted into lab work after training. “We are aiming at improving quality,” she said.

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