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Science And Technology: Their Relationship with Law

IMPACT OF SCIENCE accused. Forensic Science in detection of crime in

ON INVESTIGATION helps in providing the developed countries are
identity of the culprit or tremendous and increas-
Science is a compelling the accused who willingly ing with new techniques.

and commanding weapon or unwillingly, in most The area of Forensic Sci-
ence in India has not been

properly looked into, as
it ought to have been and
more so when the average

acquittal rate is alarmingly
high. Therefore, in our

country, also, the necessity
and importance of Foren-
sic Science hardly needs

any emphasis. The lack of
understanding and appre-

ciation of the importance
of specialists in general,
by non-specialists, in all

fields, cannot be denied.
The field of Forensic Sci-

ence is no exception.
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Many a time, neither the
in the armory of adminis- of the cases, leaves the judge, nor the lawyer nor

tration of justice. Forensic mark of his crime, thereby even the police appreci-
Science is a science per- making the job of the ate fully, the advances or

taining to law. In particu- investigator much easier the extensive, promising
lar, it works as the branch, in proving the culpability potentialities of the sci-
which is used mainly in with the aid of Forensic ence and the fusion of

criminal investigation and Science. new technologies, meth-
findings of which can lead odologies, modalities and

to arrests and convictions. Forensic Science provides research. Multitask and
Undoubtedly, scientific scientific study for in- multi-professional nature
investigations generate vestigation of crime. The of Forensic Science needs

evidence in favor of the growth, development and an inter-professional ap-
victims and against the use of Forensic Science proach, which is, many a

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