App for medico-legal cases introduced in Kanyakumari dist

TheKanyakumaripolice on Tuesday introduced a Medico-legal case intimation system to link hospitals with Police stations and digitize intimation of medico-legal cases, as a pilot project.

State minister for information technology,T Mano Thangarajinaugurated the new digital application, in the presence of district collector P N Sridhar,SP D N Hari Kiran Prasad, and others.

The minister said that more than 235 schemes of theTamil Nadugovernment are functioning digitally and efforts are on to establish an additional 16,000 government e-seva centres across the state.

This new application introduced by Kanyakumari police can deal efficiently with medico-legal cases such as road accidents or attacks. Whenever such a patient is admitted to a hospital, they can intimate the police control room by entering the details in the app.