1Research Scholar, Amity Institute of Forensic Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
2Assistant Professor (Grade-III) Amity Institute of Forensic Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
3Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, Jharkhand
4Assistant Director Biology, Forensic Science Laboratory, Rohini, Delhi, India
*Assistant Professor (Grade-III) Amity Institute of Forensic Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Amity UniversityUttar Pradesh, Noida-201313, India E-mail: drmishraa1@gmail.com Mob. +91 9818978527
Online Published on 17 September, 2022.
DNA fingerprinting analysis is used to solve cases of murder, rape, paternity, child swapping, immigration and many more. Sir Alec John Jeffry, also known as the Father of DNA Fingerprinting, first applied DNA profiling in the field of forensic science in the late 1980s.
A case of disputed maternity was registered by Delhi Police. The victim of the case complained of missing her baby girl. After two months of investigation, it was found that about two months earlier a baby girl was found abandoned near a canal in the jurisdiction of another Police Station. After the direction of the Child Welfare Committee, doctors preserved the blood samples of the victim and the baby girl.
Delhi Police deposited the preserved blood samples of the victim, and the baby girl at Forensic Science Laboratory, Rohini, Delhi for DNA Fingerprint Analysis to solve the case of disputed maternity.
The DNA profiling performed on the blood samples of the victim and the baby girl confirmed that the victim is the biological mother of the abandoned baby girl and solved the disputed maternity case with absolute certainty.
Forensic Genetics, DNA, RT-PCR, PCR, STR Analysis
