panaji the work on setting up of a cyber forensic lab cum training centre is in the final stages of completion and is likely to become function soon as of now over 50 cyber crime cases have been closed due to lack of evidencespeaking to toi crime branch superintendent of police shobit saxena said once the work of the lab is completed it will immensely help investigations using cuttingedge technology and tools to detect cyber crime and forensic investigations of such crimessaxena said that most of the work on the lab has been completed and some equipment will arrive next week the lab will soon be functional he saidthe cyber crime cell ccc of the goa police has closed over half of its cases due to lack of evidence not a single person has been convicted in the state for cyber crime since 2014 118 cases have been registered at the ccc and closure reports have been filed in 61 casescurrently the crime branch has a small lab set up under corporate social responsibility an alarming rise in cyber crime cases in the state have remained unsolved due to lack of infrastructure and cyber expertsinvestigations into cyber crimes including financial crimes involving cheating credit card frauds money laundering cyber photography involving production and distribution of pornographic material sale of illegal articles such as narcotics weapons and wildlife intellectual property crimes such as theft of computer source code software piracy copyright infringement trademark violation deployment of virus cyberattack cyber terrorism etc requires computer skills mainly for onsite imaging of disks and onsite analysis and tracking of leads however the lack of skilled manpower is a major problem goa police is facing in december 2013 the state government had granted permission to set up a cyber crime cell in the state and to recruit technical persons for the same a year later the same was operational