Crime Scene Investigation

In the cases of transgender and gender non-conforming people, the biological sex often has little correlation with their social identity which tends to delay the identification process. At times, transgenders prefer to alter their physical appearance in order to reflect their gender in a better way. The surgical modification for trans-women, that ends in transitioning […]

In our previous post, we talked History of Forensic Entomology. In this article, we will get an insight on How Insects Help in Criminal Investigation. Majorly, We get the following information from insects- Estimation of time of death and postmortem interval- Time of death can be estimated by insects by two methods. One is using […]

Human hair follows a pattern of growth and rest. The hair grows during the ‘growing’ phase of the follicle, and then it is retained as a dead club hair during the subsequent ‘resting’ phase. A new growing phase follows, producing a new hair which may dislodge the old hair or may grow alongside it. This […]

Forensic entomology is the branch of forensic science in which information about insects is used to draw conclusions when investigating legal cases relating to both humans and wildlife, although on occasion the term may be expanded to include other arthropods. The insects that can assist in forensic entomological investigations include blowflies, flesh flies, cheese skippers, […]

A dying declaration is a statement made as to the cause of a person’ s death, or as to any of the circumstances of the transaction, which resulted in the person’s death, made by the persons who ultimately die. If the person making dying declaration survives, his statement is inadmissible as dying declaration but be […]