Rahul vs The State Of Delhi Ministry Of Home ... on 7 November, 2022
In Rahul vs. State of Delhi, Ministry of Home Affairs and
Another13 the Apex Court held the underlying basis of the findings of
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The Royal Society of Edinburgh, Forensic DNA analysis - a primer for courts, [2017] PL 29,30
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The Royal Society of Edinburgh (n 3), 5
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DNA report must be gone into. It also discarded the report as there was
delay in dispatch of samples for CFSL examination. Exhibit 29a clearly
sets out the process of DNA profiling through DNA isolation by organic
extraction method and amplification by multiplex PCR method for Short
Tandem Reports (STRs) and amelogenin loci the amplified products
along with controls were run on automated sequencer and analysed
using GeneMapper ID software with respect to Standard Ladder. STR
report findings match the allelic peaks against the respective loci in the
electropherograms for the relevant samples. Objections raised are
ambivalent and may be explained away. They may impact probability of
the conclusions but do not render them wholly unacceptable. Moreover,
the hair and other articles were kept inside a large packet which bore
the seal of the hospital improbabilising substitution.