The secret template India uses to print currency notes has been 'compromised' and that is possibly why fake but real-looking Indian currency notes are being pumped in, says the Central Bureau of Investigation, to subvert the country's economy.
The Bihar police on Thursday conducted polygraph test of Meena Devi, the principal of a government primary school in Saran district where 23 children died after eating contaminated food last month.
A team of the Central Bureau of Investigation questioned former assistant director of Forensic Science Laboratory, Dr S Malini, who conducted the narco-analysis on the Fr Jose Puthrakoil, Fr Thomas Kuttoor and Sr Sephy in connection with the Sister Abhaya murder case.
The Jammu and Kashmir government suspended four police officers and an official of the forensic science laboratory (FSL) in the rape-and-murder of the two young women in Shopian town.
Besides Waze, former 'encounter specialist' Pradeep Sharma and a few other former police personnel are also accused in the case.
The scene was recreated late on Friday night, in which Waze was asked to walk there for some time wearing a white kurta.
There is something strange about the Sister Abhaya case. Most officers associated with the case have had a strange turn of events in their lives. The recent ouster of Dr S Malini of the Bangalore Forensic Sciences Laboratory is just another incident.
With every second terror strike having a vital link to cyberspace, the agency has decided to train new officers more on cracking cyber crimes rather than focus on target shooting with arms.
The arrested reportedly confessed to their links with terror groups and their plans to trigger explosions in about 20 places in Karnataka.
Investigators will subject the cloth allegedly used by Sushant Singh Rajput to hang himself to 'tensile strength' analysis to determine whether it can bear the weight similar to that of the actor, as part of probe into his death.
A special investigation team is re-examining the scene of a crime decades after two men were allegedly murdered and their bodies set on fire in their house here during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
A compact disc containing the alleged hate speeches of BJP leader Varun Gandhi, which created a furore ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, was "not doctored", the Hyderabad-based Forensic Science Laboratory has said in its report.
Criminals will find it difficult to cover their tracks now, with the Directorate of Forensic Sciences launching a project to fingerprint firearms and create a National Ballistic Imaging Database. The Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory, Chandigarh, has begun an exercise to create a database of all guns used in crime all over the country.
Officials of the CBI had brought Dr Rajesh Talwar's coumpounder, Krishna, to Bengaluru in order to subject him to brain mapping and narco-analysis tests. Prior to conducting the scientific tests, Krishna was questioned at length by both the CBI and Forensic Science Laboratory officials, a pre-requisite before the actual tests are conducted.
"Terrorist groups find it easy to mislead the minds of educated youth in the name of Jihad, which actually means sacrifice life for God in a positive manner and not the way these groups interpret."
A post-mortem report stated that Singh had sustained 40 injuries over her body due to the drag. Her "brain matter" is missing and she had multiple contusions, abrasions and lacerations, the doctors found.
The Jharkhand police took India's second most-wanted Maoist Pramod Mishra to Bangalore's Forensic Science Laboratory for a narco-analysis test on Friday, only to find that the doctor who administers the tests has been dismissed from service.
Bihar Police on Wednesday arrested a person in connection with Indigo station manager Rupesh Kumar Singh's murder, which it claimed to be the outcome of a road rage.
Terror suspects Mohammad Asif and Shakeel Mali were subjected to polygraph (lie-detector) test at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Bangalore on Tuesday, FSL sources said.
DNA test results have established that the two persons killed as foreign militants and buried in north Kashmir, Ganderbal police district, were actually local civilians.
A senior police officer said that DNA mapping would take 35 to 45 days.
The development comes after the police force was pulled up by a city court for its handling of the investigation into the riots in which at least 53 people were killed and over 200 were injured.
Alarmed over the menace of the fake Indian currency notes spreading its tentacles in India, the government has issued a directive to the Reserve Bank of India to withdraw from circulation the notes of 1996 and 2000 series.
The police say they only found some 'Jihaadi literature' on the tapes.
Rafiq, a suspect in the Hyderabad bomb blasts that killed 42 people, was on Thursday subjected to a narco-analysis test, the second one to be conducted on himsince last week.
A Forensic Science Laboratory source told rediff.com that the second test was necessary as the first one had been a failure. It is said that Rajkumar, Talwar's colleague Anita Durrani's domestic help, had not revealed much during the first test.
Meet Dr Malini, the assistant director, FSL Bengaluru, who has played the lead role in all the tests that have been conducted. Dr Malini, who is a mother of two children narrated to rediff.com her experience at the FSL Bengaluru where she has dealt with 130 suspected terrorists, 15 Naxalites and several other criminals.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday conducted a polygraph test on Rajesh Talwar, prime accused and father of the victim Aarushi, even as the probe agency was trying hard to find out the weapon used in the crime and the apparel of the dentist's compounder.
Four weapons, including a rifle belonging to Ashish Mishra alias Monu Mishra, had been seized following the Lakhimpur violence. A pistol owned by Ankit Das, nephew of former Union minister Akhilesh Das, and a repeater gun, which was with Das' bodyguard Lateef Kale, were also among them.
two forensic labs give contradictory reports on Anara porn CDs.
two forensic labs give contradictory reports on Anara porn CDs.
RDX and timer were used in the explosion that ripped apart a taxi at Wadi Bunder in central Mazgaon during the November 26 Mumbai terror attack, sources said."Samples from the blast tested at forensic science laboratory in Mumbai showed that RDX and timer were used in the explosion," sources said, adding that the explosive used was similar to that used in Vile Parle taxi blast.
Extradited gangster Abu Salem gave a wealth of information on underworld activities and even revealed details of incidents that happened 15 years ago during a narco-analysis test in Bangalore Friday.
The additional sessions judge said there are 208 prosecution witnesses, 171 documents and 27 forensic science laboratory (FSL) reports in the case.
The five accused arrested in connection with the gang rape of 23-year-old photojournalist were on Wednesday taken to Shakti Mills compound in Mumbai to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to the crime.
Telgi has said in a letter read out by his lawyers that he is disturbed by the reports.
It is said the hard disks contain jihadi material used to brainwash and recruit youth.
Around 30 people are still undergoing treatment at various government hospitals in Bhavnagar, Botad, Barvala and Dhandhuka, officials said.
The Goa police say British teen Scarlette Keeling was first raped and then died due to a drug overdose. The police claim that Placido Carvalho had been supplying drugs to Scarlette and that he was the one who raped her. Scarlette's mother has sought the Prime Minister's intervention in the case, saying she had lost faith in the state police.
This was done in the wake of conflicting reports on the CDs from the forensic science laboratories in Hyderabad and Chandigarh, top police sources told PTI.
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