Published on December 8, 2023 AHMEDABAD: What connects Ahmedabad’s Odhav to Telangana and Vadodara’s Harni to Rajasthan? A series of crimes, according to the experts at the Directorate of Forensic Sciences. Forensic analysis of fingerprints in 62 cases of thefts, house break-ins and murders in the state — among the highest in recent years —- … Continue reading Fingerprint analysis points to inter-state gangs in 25 crimes
DNA evidence nails rape-robbery accused
Published on November 22, 2023 AHMEDABAD: On an evening in October 2019, a young couple started from GIFT City near Gandhinagar, and hoping to spend time at a quite spot, took the Infocity to Adalaj road and then Thol Road parallel to Narmada canal. However, the evening soon turned ugly for the couple. They were … Continue reading DNA evidence nails rape-robbery accused
‘Helplines let suicidal souls vent their emotions to save them’
Published on April 10, 2023 AHMEDABAD: In one of the suicide notes by a young woman, which was sent to the Directorate of Forensic Sciences (DFS) for a handwriting analysis, she pours her heart out in two pages, indicating that she was depressed as she could not meet her in-laws’ expectations. “It had led to … Continue reading ‘Helplines let suicidal souls vent their emotions to save them’
What suicide victims in Gujarat wrote in final note
Published on April 10, 2023 AHMEDABAD: On Sunday, Mumbai police arrested a student of IIT Bombay (IIT-B) in connection with suicide of Ahmedabad's Darshan Solanki on February 12 after he jumped off the seventh floor. Solanki's suicide note - recovered a month after his death - proved to be a crucial evidence in the case … Continue reading What suicide victims in Gujarat wrote in final note
Gujarat: Anything from salt to steroids used to ‘make’ antiviral drugs
Published on June 16, 2021 AHMEDABAD: What did the spurious injection vials of tocilizumab and remdesivir contain which were sold for thousands of rupees to desperate kin of Covid patients at the peak of the pandemic in April and May in Gujarat? State police investigators and forensic sciences experts say the drugs contained anything from … Continue reading Gujarat: Anything from salt to steroids used to ‘make’ antiviral drugs
Oh deer! Gujarat scientist makes DNA repository for quick identification
Published on February 23, 2020 AHMEDABAD: Wildlife crime investigators usually spend days to know if the seized animal products belong to specie protected under the Wildlife Act. A scientist at Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU) in Gandhinagar has devised a DNA barcode which can tell if the seized meat, nail, fur, horns etc belong to … Continue reading Oh deer! Gujarat scientist makes DNA repository for quick identification
Malnutrition in urban areas arresting dental growth?
Published on February 12, 2020 Ahmedabad: What can teeth reveal about a person? A lot — if the examiner is a dentist or a forensic odontologist. A study conducted by a researcher from Gujarat Forensic Sciences University (GFSU), claimed that the dental growth, one of the parameters of a child’s overall well-being, was found to … Continue reading Malnutrition in urban areas arresting dental growth?
Gujarat experts to verify Tunda’s claims
AHMEDABAD: Seventy-year-old Saiyad AbdulKarim alias Tunda, is perhaps the biggest and most important catch in recent times for national security agencies. Not without reason - considered a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) ideologue - Tunda is thought to be involved in multiple bombings in India and also in contact with countless terror operatives including Dawood Ibrahim. Tundawas caught on the India-Nepal border on August 16. What he says now, … Continue reading Gujarat experts to verify Tunda’s claims
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