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'Headley had surveyed area near Pune blast site' (Lead)

'Headley had surveyed area near Pune blast site' (Lead): "Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley had surveyed the Osho ashram area, which is 200 yards from the German Bakery where a bomb blast Saturday evening killed eight people, including a foreigner, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said.
'It may be noted that Osho Ashram is 200 yards from the bakery and was one of the sites surveyed by LeT operative David Headley,' Pillai told reporters here after chairing a high-level meeting of senior officials in the wake of the Pune blast. Headley, a suspect in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is currently in a US jail.
Pillai said the central agencies had informed the Maharashtra Police on October 12, 2009 about Headley's visit."

Pune blast shows advance in terror technology: Experts Gandhinagar, Feb 16 (IANS)

The material used in Saturday's Pune blast that killed nine people is substantially different from what was used in the deadly serial blasts in Ahmedabad in 2008, and shows a worrying advance in terror technology, according to forensic experts.

The team from the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) here who are in Pune to assist the police in the blast probe say RDX was the main explosive used at the German Bakery in Pune, and it is substantially more lethal than the ammonium nitrate used in Ahmedabad and elsewhere in 2008

Read: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/52974/pune-blast-shows-advance-terror.html

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UN turns to forensic science to help combat illegal fishing


Forensic science, more often associated with solving murders in prime time television crime series, is now helping the United Nations fight illegal fishing, fraudulent product substitution and false documentation that not only cheat consumers but also endanger fish stocks and threaten livelihoods ...

Read the whole Article here: Spero News

Police on the hunt for perfect PC crime breathalyser

UK police are continuing to develop a tool to detect evidence of illegal activity on PCs that could be as easy for officers to use as a breathalyser.

Specialist e-crime policing organisations have been examining commercially available digital forensic devices that can search text, pictures and computer code on a hard disk for material of police interest.

This 'digital triage' tool would give frontline police with little training in digital forensics the ability to search for anything from text in emails relating to stolen goods to illegal images.

Detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie, the chief of the UK's Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), told silicon.com research is continuing to find a suitable commercially available digital forensics tool that could be adapted for use by frontline officers.

Source:Silicon.com

Bullet Trajectories: Misidentifying Bullet Trajectories in Reconstruction

Pythagora’s Theorem is the basis for establishing the area of origin in blood pattern analysis and is commonly used in
shooting reconstruction for establishing bullet trajectories. In part, this method of triangulation works well in blood
pattern analysis, because a specific blood pattern is created by a hemorrhaging event from a single source that casts spatter
in directions away from the source point. By dissecting the central axis of the stains to find an area of convergence,
and taking the arc sine of the ratio of representative stains, one may derive the degrees of the angle of incidence or impact.

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Source: Forensic In the News

Chidambaram announces 2010 as 'Year of Forensic Science'

New Delhi, Feb 1 : Underscoring the role forensic science plays in the investigation and trial of crimes, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today declared 2010 as 'the Year of Forensic Science' and announced formation of a two-member panel of consultants to thoroughly examine the state of forensic science teaching and training.


Source: newKerala.com

Faster, More Cost-Effective DNA Test For Crime Scenes, Disease Diagnosis

Scientists in Japan are reporting development of a faster, less expensive version of the fabled polymerase chain reaction (PCR) a DNA test widely used in criminal investigations, disease diagnosis, biological research and other applications. The new method could lead to expanded use of PCR in medicine, the criminal justice system and elsewhere, the researchers say.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708094837.htm

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India to help Maldives with forensic lab, training

ndia Wednesday assured a visiting Maldives delegation of help the Indian Ocean nation in setting up a police academy, forensic science laboratory, corporate fraud cell and as also train its officers in investigating cyber crime and economic offences.

The delegation, led by Home Minister Mohamed Shihab Shihab and including Commissioner of Police Ahmed Faseeh and Deputy Head of Strategic Development Department Yoonus Sobah, visited the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) headquarters and the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) here.

It also visited the DNA lab, computer forensics and voice spectrograph division, ballistics division and lie-detection division in the CFSL.

Source:
http://www.in.com/news/current-affairs/fullstory-india-to-help-maldives-with-forensic-lab-training-12664711-c9f1391004c13d2aa8e681b543a45ab68fc43d34-1.html

Government appoints team to examine state of forensic science- February 1,2010

New Delhi: In an initiative to improve the state of forensic science in the country, the home ministry has appointed a two-member team of consultants to examine the facilities of training and condition of laboratories.

Addressing his monthly press conference, home minister P Chidambaram today said state of forensic science as well as the state of the Central and State Forensic Science Laboratories "leave much to be desired" hence the year 2010 has been declared as the "Year of Forensic Science".

SOURCE: DNA Article: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_government-appoints-team-to-examine-state-of-forensic-science_1341982#share

Medico-Legal Update

Medico-legal Update is an international journal which bring latest knowledge regarding changing medico legal scenario to its readers. The journal caters to specialties of Forensic Medicine, Forensic Science, D.N.A. fingerprinting, Toxicology, Environment hazards, Sexual Medicine etc. The journal has been assigned international standard serial number (ISSN) 0971-720X. The journal is registered with Registrar of Newspapers for India vide registration numbers 63757/96 under Press and Registration of Books act,1867. The journal is abstracted by Sociological Abstracts, San Diego (U.S.A.) The journal is also covered with EMBASE [Excerpta Medica Data Base] from 1997. The Journal is also cited by INDEX COPERNICUS, Poland.
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