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Implementing innovative strategy for visualising fingerprints on wet non-porous surfaces

Publication date: 11.09.2023

Problems of Forensic Sciences, 2023, 133, pp. 57 - 66

https://doi.org/10.4467/12307483PFS.23.004.17814

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Anjali Kollam
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Tamanna Jaitly
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Pavan Kumar Ganechary
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Prawahan Raghottam
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Vinay Aseri
Department of Forensic Science, Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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Implementing innovative strategy for visualising fingerprints on wet non-porous surfaces

Abstract

Fingerprints are an important piece of evidence in crime investigation and play a key role in crime investigation due to their permanency, universality, uniqueness and of course availability. Utilization of water or any other liquids to destroy evidence by criminals is a very common practice. It becomes difficult to collect and analyse such evidence from underwater in terms of its forensic reproducibility, though not impossible. The methods employed are quite tedious, expensive and unreliable. There are many fingerprint powders accessible to the scientific examiners to recuperate and gather the unique fingerprint impressions submerged, the vast majority of them are for explicit materials like small particle reagent (SPR). The technique has been compromised by its downsides as it is highly toxic, very sensitive, low contrast and quite costly. An urgent and imperative need to foster an economical and effective, low cost fingerprint powder for underwater impressions by using the materials that are easily available. The present study was conducted to fulfil the same objective and proposes a modest unique fingerprint powder which provides great proficiency from a combination of surfactant sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) with chalk powder (yellow) and silver powder respectively.

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Information: Problems of Forensic Sciences, 2023, 133, pp. 57 - 66

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Implementing innovative strategy for visualising fingerprints on wet non-porous surfaces

English:

Implementing innovative strategy for visualising fingerprints on wet non-porous surfaces

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4308-3830

Vinay Aseri
Department of Forensic Science, Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4308-3830 Orcid
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Department of Forensic Science, Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Published at: 11.09.2023

Article status: Open

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Percentage share of authors:

Anjali Kollam (Author) - 20%
Tamanna Jaitly (Author) - 20%
Pavan Kumar Ganechary (Author) - 20%
Prawahan Raghottam (Author) - 20%
Vinay Aseri (Author) - 20%

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Kollam A, Jaitly T, Ganechary P, Raghottam P, Aseri V. Implementing innovative strategy for visualising fingerprints on wet non-porous surfaces. Problems of Forensic Sciences. 2023;2023 (133): 57-66