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UNIT
I
Forensic Science - Definition - Development of Forensic
Science in India and other countries - Organisation
and functions of Forensic Laboratory.
UNIT
II
Physical evidences - Their classification and significance
- Locard's principle of exchange - Class and individual
characteristics.
UNIT
III
Crime Scene examination - Documentation of crime scene-
Recognition, Collection, Preservation and transportation
of physical evidence for laboratory examination.
UNIT
IV
Fundamentals of photography - Crime scene photography
- Micro and Macro photography - colour Photography.
UNIT
V
Foot and tyre impressions - Walking pattern - Recording
and Examination of foot prints and tyre prints.
UNIT
VI
Finger prints - Fundamental principles - Finger print
patterns - Classification of finger prints - Methods
of development of latent finger prints.
UNIT
VII
Tool marks - Identification - Restoration of filed off/erased
marks - Detection of counterfeit coins and currency.
UNIT
VIII
Fire arms - Bullet and cartridge case identication -
Pellets and wads - Range of firing.
UNIT
IX
Fire and arson - Natural fires - Arson - Accelerants
- Combustible properties of flammable substances.
UNIT
X
Explosives - Classification of explosive substances
- Combustion, detonation and explosion - Effects of
explosions- Military and Industrial explosives - Improvised
explosive devices - explosive residues examination.
PAPER -II
UNIT
I
Questioned Documents Identification of handwriting,
typewriter and forged signatures - Erasures and alterations
on documents and their detection
UNIT
II
Broken glass - Glass fractures - Direction of force
- backward fragmentation -Comparison of glass fragments.
UNIT
III
Forensic Examination of Soil, paint, fibres, hair, bones,
teeth and skull.
UNIT
IV
Toxicology - Classification and mode of action of poisons
- Narcotic drgus -Alcoholic beverages - Isolation and
Identification of poisons, drugs and alcohol.
UNIT
V
Examination of biological fluids - Blood, Seminal and
Saliva stands - Forensic characterisation of the above
stains - Stain pattens of blood - Fundamentals of DNA
typing.
UNIT
VI
Motor Vehicle accidents - Hit and run - Skid marks -
Speed of the vehicle at the time of accident - Broken
head light and its significance.
UNIT
VII
Theory and practice of polygraph and voice identification.
UNIT
VIII
Microscopy - Compound, Stereo, comparison and polarising
microscopes-transmission and canning electron microscope.
UNIT
IX
Instrumental methods for organic analysis-Principles
of Chromatography, spectrophotometry and mass spectrometry.
UNIT
X
Instrumental methods for inorganic analysis - principles
of emission and atomic absorption spectra - x-ray diffraction
- Neutron activation analysis.
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