Investigation
Brain fingerprinting: peeping into the suspect’s mind?
The obsessive desire behind brain fingerprinting is one that has fascinated mankind for ages—the desire to ‘read someone’s mind’. This has been a tremendously popular motivation for the simple reason that it would yield terrific power in the hands of one who may accomplish it.
Lie-Detector Test- so near, yet so FAR from TRUTH
The Lie Detector or Polygraph test was the result of an obsessive desire —to peep into the minds of others and acquire control over them
Death by hanging: ignorance, suicide or murder?
Popular imagery of suicidal hanging presumes the body hanging freely from the roof, eyes bulging out and tongue protruding from the mouth
Forensics: exact science or dramatised fiction? #1
Forensics is not an exact science just a few misleading laboratory techniques. In this series our aim will be to expose the hoax of forensics and highlight how justice continues to be murdered on the altar of ignorance.
Glass, paint, soil & questioned documents analysis
Glass, paint or soil samples may vary from place to place. Likewise, two different signatures by the same person are never exactly alike.
Rape: forensic science’s error leads to injustice
According to National Crime Records Bureau, nearly 77 rape take place in India every day, that is, a woman is raped about every 19 minutes.
Guns, bullets & wounds- the ‘hole’ truth
Many experts claim that they can tell the calibre of the bullets just by looking at the entrance wound. This is scientifically not possible.
Post mortem reports – the big farce, justifying untruth
What can be expected out of a post mortem when the doctor who signs the report hasn't seen the body? The ugly reality doesn't end here.
Fingerprint analysis- science or ‘medical palmistry’?
Investigators have been depending on fingerprint analysis to solve crimes for 100s of years. However there is no scientific way to determine how long a fingerprint has been on a surface or under what circumstances it was placed there.
Are DNA tests infallible?
Many people in India- police officers, forensic personnel and legal fraternity believe that ‘DNA tests’ are infallible. This is far from truth
Drowning death: the forensic hoax
Indian forensic community is so conditioned to think along structured lines that the mere presence of a body in water compels them to infer death by drowning. It could very well have been a murder.
Are footprints, tyres or tool marks reliable evidence?
A widely held but mistaken belief is that impression evidence can link the suspects to the crime. Such evidence encountered includes footwear impressions, tyre marks, and markings created by tools and similar instruments.
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