New Delhi, September 22: The Supreme Court today came down heavily on investigating agencies for pursuing “old fashioned, crude” methods in criminal cases leading to several criminals going scot free.
The court directed the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) to submit a report on availability of scientific tools to detect crimes.
“Investigation of crimes in this country continues to be old fashioned, crude and at times, ineffective. The criminals on the other hand are making use of these deficiencies and go scot free.
“Western countries invariably make use of science and technology to investigate crimes, like DNA test, finger print test blood test, fibre test and computers,” a Bench of Justices Markandeya Katju and T S Thakur observed in an order, while seeking the report.
–Agencies