Significance of Forensic Science Technologies in Collection of Evidences: An Analysis

With the emerging science and technology, the patterns of committing crime are also developing. To tackle these new patterns of crimes the Indian Courts with the help of forensic science in India came up with different innovative investigative strategies to bring justice through criminal justice system. Whether it is inquest report or a report of post-mortem, every report concerns with use of these advanced technologies deduced under the forensic science. There are few advanced technologies which are being used widely in India are Virtopsy, DNA Test, Forensic Dactylography and Forensic Podiatry, etc. These forensic tools are evident to the criminal justice system as they provide precise evidences in order to hold the accused guilty. Apart from these, Mobile forensic and Computer forensic are the one such tools which now-a-days are advantageous to the cyber-crime in this dot com era. As in one hand these tests are like a boon to the criminal justice system to proof the crimes committed by the accused extracting the hidden information from them resulting in speedy trial, on the other hand even though the Court allows, the journey between the moment when power shifts to the police to the getting opinion from the expertise, that leads coercion and violation of right to self-incrimination as well as intrusion to the person’s mental privacy which includes Deception Detection Tests like Narco-Analysis test, Polygraph test and Brain Mapping test. These tests are one such innovative strategies of collecting evidence which always remains in debate due to its constitutional validity. In this paper, the author made an attempt to give analysis on the significance of these emerging technologies and the way it conducted by the experts which makes it reliable to collect it as evidence and admissible in the criminal justice system.