DNA Finger priniting in Indian Criminal Justice system: Future Prespectives

DNA Fingerprinting has brought a new revolution in the crime scene analysis in the recent years. It has helped to identify the criminal and absolve the innocent in many crimes and is also being used extensively for identification purposes and determining the biological parentage of an individual. Human DNA profiling on one hand is proving extremely useful in providing justice, but on the other hand its regulation is imperative to ensure its use only for lawful purposes. DNA profiling is scientific, reliable and unbiased. The main areas of concern are the cost effectiveness, lack of experts, sample collection and preservation and avoiding errors like cross contamination. Much needs to be done both at technical and at medico-legal fronts before making full use of the potentials of DNA profiling.