Abstract

Background

The use of water to destroy evidences in criminal cases is common. It is uncommon to believe the usefulness of evidences recovered underwater in terms of its forensic significance regarding personal identification especially by the investigating officers, who are responsible to collect and analyse the evidences. In this study, two main factors were considered which may impact the condition of fingerprint evidences: firstly, the time duration for which the evidence remains submerged in water (0.5 h, 24 h, 48 h, 120 h), and secondly, the succession or the number of prints given by the same finger one after the other (5 subsequent prints).

Results

The result of this study revealed the successful development of latent fingerprint using Robin blue and silver magnetic powders on 8 different non-porous surfaces.

Conclusion

The developed prints provide significant individual characteristics; hence, the evidentiary value of the objects found submerged in water should not be undervalued.

Details

Title
Development of submerged and successive latent fingerprints: a comparative study
Author
Kapoor Neeti 1 ; Ahmed Shagufa 2 ; Shukla, Ritesh K 3 ; Badiye Ashish 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Government Institute of Forensic Science, Department of Forensic Science, Nagpur, India 
2  Government Institute of Forensic Science, Nagpur, India 
3  Ahmedabad University, Biological and Life Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad, India (GRID:grid.448607.9) 
4  Government Institute of Forensic Science, Department of Forensic Science, Nagpur, India (GRID:grid.448607.9) 
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Dec 2019
Publisher
Springer Nature B.V.
ISSN
2090-536X
e-ISSN
2090-5939
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s41935-019-0147-1
ProQuest document ID
2264544624
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.