The Destroyed Evidence

Rinkal Chaudhary¹, Harsh Sharma² and Vinod Dhingra³*

Received: September 16, 2020;   Published: November 19, 2020

DOI: 10.32474/PRJFGS.2020.04.000184

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Abstract

A series of investigation and examination of evidences is required to solve any criminal mystery. A crime scene investigator must be trained enough to observe crime scene and extract all crucial and relatable evidence with concurrently information of body identification, cause of death and sequence of events occurred. The investigation become more meticulous in the cases of burn, where identification of dead body is very challenging. Burns are the most devastating type of injury that one can bear and is equally devastating for relevant information that investigator can use to reconstitute the events of crime. A case was reported in Sukhi Sewania Police Station Bhopal MP, that a burned body was found in secluded place of forest near Amoni Village. The body was unidentifiable due to the severely burns and the only evidences collected from the crime scene were a piece of mattress, two empty canes with smell like petrol and mark of tyres from nearby soil in forest. This study highlights how investigators skillfully establish the link between two apparently different cases and solve the mystery by very limited silent clues. Finally, DNA test conclusively confirmed the identity of the victim.

Keywords: Burnt Body; Postmortem Burns; Physical Evidence; Destroyed Evidences

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