Forensic Biotechnology

Graduate Level Course

 Famous Indian Crime cases
solved by DNA Fingerprinting
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 1991

Identification of Rajiv
Gandhi through fragmented
body-parts (conducted Confirm the identity of
crime-scene reconstruction) Victim through DNA
Fingerprinting
1995 Naina Sahni Murder case
 1996 Priyadarshini Matoo Murder Case
Priyadarshini Matoo, 23, was
allegedly raped and
strangulated to death in her
house in N. Delhi in Jan 1996,
by her fellow student S. K.
Singh , a son of a senior IPS
officer.

DNA test was conducted and

test confirmed and connect the
crime with criminal. But
Defence argued and challenged
the “scientific procedure”
adopted in DNA probe.
The Session Judge pronounced: “Though I knew, he is the man
(Santosh Singh), who committed the crime, I acquit him, giving him the
benefit of doubt.”

In Oct’2010 SC has sentence him for life imprisonment.

Suggestion: PROCEDURE adopted in DNA probing should have no

scope left to benefit the accused giving him benefit of doubt at all.
2003
Madhumita Shukla Murder Case
 2009
Actor Shiney Ahuja sentenced to 7-year rigorous imprisonment ..

During the trial, the maid whom the

Bollywood actor had allegedly
raped turned hostile and claimed
she was not raped. Ahuja was
convicted nonetheless as DNA
samples taken

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 2012, Delhi Bus Gangrape Case

The brutal gangrape and murder of a young woman by six men led to massive
public outrage. All the accused were sentenced to death based on the dying
declaration of the victim and DNA evidence.

Seema Kushwaha Asha Devi Chhaya Sharma

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2012
Sheena Bora Murder Case
2012
 2017 Habibganj Rape Case
A 19 year girl was allegedly raped
by four men near the railway tracks
here when she was returning home
after attending a coaching class

Three police stations failed to lodge

an FIR over a jurisdiction dispute
Case solved with the help of DNA
fingerprinting with 7 days under
Dr Harsh Sharma, Director and Mr Dinesh Sager, ADGP
fast track court.