The Need And Admissibility Of Scientific Evidence In Criminal Justice Administration

Moulishvarran M.

Mohanraj G,

Mano R., The Central Law College, Salem.

INTRODUCTION:

Technology has become unavoidable thing in this contemporary world. It is integrated in everything we do in our day to day life. The law changes as per the needs of the society. The technology has become the integrated part of crime justice system in the form of scientific evidences. Many judgments were pronounced with the help of the scientific evidences. Those scientific evidences will be accurate and helpful to uphold the justice. There is some conflict in the admissibility of forensic evidence in the court of law. From the past to present various types of forensic evidences were admitted in the court and landmark judgments were delivered in both criminal and civil trails.

EVIDENCE:

Any object or a thing that produced in favor or against a person during inquiry or trail in the court of law. This includes documents, fingerprints, photographs and cctv footages. This is terms as an evidence1.

FORENSIC EVIDENCE:

The forensic evidences or scientific evidences are evidences that are collected from the scientific experiments and observations. These evidences include DNA profiling (blood stains, seminal stain, body fluids), Fingerprints and etc.2