Forensic evidence – a rape and murder case
Sabyasachi Nath, HK Pratihari · Forensic Research & Criminology International Journal · 2019
Sexual crime is very alarming in most of the countries and India is not exception to it.As per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), MHA, Govt. of India data, every day ninety three women are being raped in the country.There is also gradual increase in the number of rapes reported in India.But incident of rape-sexual homicide cases are very less, as such the data on commission of two different unrelated crimes together are not available in literature.In one case, a girl age about 20-year was found lying dead in half naked condition being strangulated with a full pant tied around her neck in an abandoned place.The incident was reported to the police and investigating officer along with forensic team visited the undisturbed violent crime scene to study the crime scene behavior and collect different forensic evidence.Further, autopsy report and analysis of the forensic evidence could help to establish the crime and apprehend the rapist.The details have been discussed in this paper.