This Independence Day, Maharashtra state will take a giant leap in securing the cyber world. All district and city police headquarters, in all 44, will start operating cyber forensic laboratories from August 15.

The ambitious project has been designed to tackle cyber threats and crimes that are reported and will be taken to its logical end. All district and city labs have been connected with a central processing centre in Mumbai. Information will be tracked and exchanged 24x7 and then processed for further action. So far such a facility was not available at each district or police HQ.