Corruption cases are piling in court, thanks to an acute staff crunch at the state’s Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in the city. Some 106 cases registered with the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Mumbai, are in abeyance because the state’s FSL in Kalina is experiencing extreme manpower shortage. In fact, its voice testing department — called the tape authentication and speaker identification (TASI) division — has no technical staff left. In the absence of deft hands to test voice samples, evidence against the accused cannot be corroborated, leading to corruption cases piling up in court.

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