Authors : Rinkal Chaudhary, Harsh Sharma, D K Sathpathy, Vinod Dhingra
DOI : 10.18231/j.ijfmts.2021.034
Volume : 6
Issue : 4
Year : 2021
Page No : 164-167
In any case of homicide, proof of corpus delicti is very important, as entirety of corpus and the proof of homicidal death are very essential ingredients for successful prosecution, otherwise due to lack of the vital points the case become weak. Crime scene investigation is very grim in cases where the actual scene of crime is not known. Sometimes the criminal attempt to mislead the investigation by dismembering the victim’s body and disposed it off. The actual crime scene may contain very important clues related to the case but in these types of cases a crime scene investigator may not be able to examine the actual primary scene of crime. Detailed Scientific examination of the secondary location and by putting together seemingly insignificant clues the investigator was able to reconstruct whole sequence of events in the crime and identified the victim and locate all the places and the persons involved in the crime. Present study deals forensic investigation of an important case in which crime was committed at one location and the body parts was disposed off in two different locations.
Keywords: Multiple location, Primary crime scene, Secondary crime scene, Corpus delicti