Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — how a forensic technique fared under appellate scrutiny.
The facts
The Court held that directing an accused to give a voice sample for investigation does not, by itself, violate Article 20(3), but flagged that the law lacked explicit statutory backing for such an order and referred the underlying question to a larger bench for authoritative resolution.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: Shows how a forensic technique used routinely in investigation (voice matching) still had contested legal footing as recently as the 2010s, and why the underlying statute matters as much as the science.
Case details
| Citation | [2012] 11 S.C.R. 683 |
| Case number | Criminal Appeal No. 2003/2012 (referred to larger bench) |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2012 |
| 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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