Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — how a forensic technique fared under appellate scrutiny.
The facts
A skeleton recovered under Section 27 of the Evidence Act was conclusively identified as the victim’s through DNA testing, closing a gap that eyewitness or circumstantial evidence alone could not close, and anchoring the rest of the circumstantial chain.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: A clean, citable example of DNA testing doing the one thing eyewitnesses cannot: putting a name to unidentifiable remains.
Case details
| Citation | [2014] 11 S.C.R. 650 |
| Case number | Criminal Appeal No. 197/2008 |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2014 |
| Module | Case Method Library |
Read the full judgment (PDF), sourced from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open dataset (AWS Open Data Registry, CC-BY-4.0).
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