Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation is intended to assist the criminal justice system to disseminate real justice. It intends to dispense with the inhumane, immoral and illegal traditional evidential tools.
- The Infamous III degree methods
- The parroted versions of the tutored witnesses
- The police approved statements of the inducted fake approvers
- The glib gatha of the ever available stock witnesses
- The dictated confessions from the accused (criminal or innocent) and
- The physical fake padding introduced to link the accused with the crimes.
Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation and Trials intends to assist to usher in scientific era. The works make it possible for the handlers of the criminal justice system to understand the potentialities, the limitations and the processes of Forensic Science. The present work is the messiah to inform the concerned how it can be done. The criminal must exchange physical clues with all the entities with which he comes in contact in the commission of crime. It tells how these clues are exchanged, located, collected, preserved, integrity and authenticity maintained, evaluated and compared and how the criminal is interlinked with the victim, with the crime scene, with the weapon of offence, with the vehicle used and the routes and sites visited. It tells how the evidence is presented in courts to make it intelligible and convincing.
Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation and Trials has rather become encyclopedic in content. It covers all the relevant specialities currently being used in India. In addition to 21 topics in the previous edition 12 more specialties have been added to make the works fully comprehensive as of today. It is hoped that the book in its present avatar will meet the needs of the targeted audience, namely the administrator, the investigator, the expert, the counsel, the judges, and the student.
Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation has a unique feature. It contains the thoughts of the judges in the form of Case Law. They provide guidelines to the judges and the lawyers. They also inform the investigator and the experts of the judicial need vis-a-vis the expert evidence. The extracted text in the Case Law discusses only the expert evidence.