Anand Rukmanagoud Patil, Alliance School of Law, Alliance University, Bangalore
ABSTRACT
There has been one of the major developments in scientific evidence in criminal law. One of them is narco analysis. From centuries there has been a rapid growth in science and technology which include the different ways in order to replace the third degree torture by police. These tests have been recently utilized to extract the information. This test can be helpful in grievous crimes. As the word forensic means crime solving with application of science and to conclude on the issues arises from the crime or litigation. However a key issue which is faced by a judge in court of law whenever a scientific evidence is put before him it becomes difficult for court whether to believe that scientific evidence or not. This paper is an attempt to understand the scope of narco analysis test in India, UK, US and its admissibility in court of law and understand the constitutional validity and criticism of this test. This paper is based on the secondary sources of data which gives a clear view to draw a conclusion on the research questions. As the objectives researcher proceeded. Overall in this paper researcher did a critical evaluation on the procedure for conducting narco analysis, admissibility of the test. Paper is divided in several chapters to discuss the topics separately and for the readers benefit.
