Posted on 09/04/2004 9:58:35 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
Shimla, Sept. 4. (PTI): India has become the second country after United States to introduce 'brain finger printing' for detection of white collar crimes, M S Rao, Chief Scientist and Director of National Forensic Science Laboratory, said today.
Under the technique, if the memory cells of an accused do not tally with his oral uttering during the investigations, the lie can be detected, he said here.
Crime committed by an accused remains confined to the memory 'like the hard disc of a computer' and can be detected, he added.
Rao, who was here in connection with an international seminar on 'Role of forensic documents in combating white collar crime' on the occasion of completion of 100 years of Shimla Forensic Science Laboratory, said that forensic science had played a pivotal role in detection of crime.
Rao said that the Telgi scam documents had been examined at the Forensic Science Laboratory at Shimla which had the distinction of examining documents of more than 30 very important cases.
These included the Kakori case, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Writing Case (1930-31), Sheikh Abdullah Kashmir Conspiracy Case (1941), Karion Murder Case, (1964), Charles Shobraj Case (1969), Harshad Mehta Case and the like.
When I first read this I thought it was bullsh*t. But I did a Yahoo search on "brain fingerprinting" and got a number of hits, including this one:
http://www.brainwavescience.com/Ruled%20Admissable.php
Be warned: the link is to the inventors website.
The link talks about a state court decision accepting the technology and provides an explanation of how it works.
I'm still half suspicious that this is an elaborate hoax with alot of made-up web pages.
This technology has already been used in India on a few famous cases(homicide,terrorism etc) over the past 4-5years,though it's not been admissible in court.
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