SOIL: FORENSIC INTERPRETATION SOME CASES STUDY

• Kanika Bansal,  
• Dr. Mukesh Sharma,*  
• S S Daga

Abstract

While investigating a crime scene related to murder, hit-and-run accidents, road accident analysis, vehicles collisions, rapes and burglaries, forensic soil examination is used for linking the suspect or an object to the crime scene. Comparison of soil provide information about location and place where from picked up by an automobile tyre (location) with the soil sample taken from the crime site may help to prove that the suspect automobile may have been used in crime (place of happening). Similarly, soil or mud found adhering to clothing or shoes of a person may provide the clue that can link a suspect to a particular crime site. In the present study we reported the importance of soil and their interpretation as forensic evinces. The study has been reported with the help of cases study to provide exemplary explanation.

Keywords

Physical Evidences, Soil, Forensic Interpretation