The body of a 55-year-old man was found completely burnt in Pali district of Rajasthan. His valuables were nowhere to be found, and it was considered to be a possible case of murder with loot.
The cadaver tissues of his pet dog gave positive test for organophosphorus substance – used in insecticides. Believing that the dog might have had the same food as the owner, the FSL report provided a new direction to investigators who interrogated the deceased’s daughter-in-law who confessed to murder of the person with an accomplice through poisoning. They burnt the body to eliminate evidence.
It was one of the cases presented at the 25th All India Forensic Science Conference (AIFSC) that concluded on Saturday.
In another study by Kapil Sharma from FSL in Himachal Pradesh, it was revealed that the impurities used to dilute heroin can potentially indicate the route it was smuggled from — while the contraband from Haryana was found to have dextromethorphan, the one from Punjab was found to have trimethoprim, helping the law-enforcement agencies to investigate the possible routes adopted by carriers.
A team from DFS Mumbai, consisting of B P More, V A Dhere and others, also presented a murder mystery. They got bone fragments which were completely burnt and ‘charcoaled.’ The experts, however, managed to extract DNA from the bones and it was revealed that it belonged to two different persons.
The profile helped establish identity of the persons based on maternal and paternal tests and nab the accused.
I S Maibam and S Joychandra Singh from DFS Manipur presented a case of hanging where a 7-feet piece of cloth was found with a single loop. The forensic experts termed it a case of suicide by proving that the person dislodged the neck by pressure from the tree it hanged, even as it seemed incredulous.
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