Role of DNA Profiling in Criminal Investigation Based Leading Case Laws
Forensic science has a great contribution in crime prevention and criminal justice by fair investigation. Its applications in crime prevention and investigation is essential to know the best possible and nearest justice to put those criminals behind the bars whose tendency is to destroy all proofs and evidences. DNA Profiling/Typing is one of the techniques of forensic technology which is used to investigate and find justice in most of the trials. The present communication deals with the contribution of DNA-Profiling in criminal investigation in Indian criminal justice, its evidentiary value and also the features of DNA Bill 2017. Material (evidences) collected to process, identify and compare to know evidentiary value of evidences. Under forensic science inter se the linkage between occurrence of crime, the criminals, the victims, the weapons, place and time are established whether it may be absence or presence by forensic science. We can say that there is an urgent and silent need for the application of the forensic science in present indian justice system. Forensic science perform many functions like establishing corpus delicti (Body of crime), determines the modus oprandi of the crime (Method of doing something) identifies the criminal and also identify the victims. DNA is a hereditary material of each living organism’s passes from parents to their offspring through inheritance. In most of the criminal and civil investigations the fair identification of criminals/heirs, parentage and other identification of individuals has been one of the biggest problem. This paper is established on secondary data collected through different online/offline sources and their analysis, which include research papers by different researchers, articles, journals, conference proceedings, periodicals, text books and available digital data analyzed for relevant application of forensic science in law.