Forensic science in Pakistan; present and future

Mateen, Rana Muhammad; Tariq, Asma; Rasool, Nouman

doi:10.1186/s41935-018-0077-3

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“…This paper, however, tends to highlight a wider and substantial perspective of this Constitutional right to fair trial which underpins importance of technological and scientific evidence in all the cases where legal framework (Cheema 2016) does not limit introduction of such an evidence. This paper also suggests that despite the limitation of adversarial system (Mateen, 2018), securing right to fair trial can be a good reason for the courts to ask for scientific and technological evidence among all other evidence such as confession, oral evidence, circumstantial evidence that can be used to prove or disprove any of the fact in issue or a relevant fact or even result of an identification parade (Article 22 QSO 1984).…”

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Articulation of the Right to Fair Trial and Forensic Science in the Criminal Justice System of Pakistan

Lodhi¹

2021

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Constructing a limited sense of right to fair trial as it usually safeguards rights of accused, has a possibility of miscarriage of justice in not considering the interest of victim in vindication of injustice committed. This limiting approach in application of fundamental right to fair trial operates to result in general public's distrust in state's administration of justice. The scientific knowledge can be a pragmatic solution for the problem. Increasing the pieces of evidence can lead to outweigh any possibility of false evidence or forced confession or mistaken identification parade. This article suggests a practical solution for the problem that instead of demanding or waiting for legislation in this regard, the courts should adopt a judicial policy to use Constitutional of right of fair trial to extend it to all other cases of civil and criminal nature, which do not come under limited legal framework of paternity and sexual offences.

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Articulation of the Right to Fair Trial and Forensic Science in the Criminal Justice System of Pakistan

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2021

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“…There are three laboratories – the Punjab Forensic Science Agency, Sindh Forensic DNA and Serology Laboratory, and Liaqat University of Medical and Health Sciences – which are routinely doing forensic casework and relatedness testing for judicial proceedings. 37–39 These laboratories use allele frequencies of Asian populations from the NIST database. 40 Additionally, the sample size for calculating allele frequencies for the Asian population in STRBase is not very large.…”

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DNA evidence in sexual assault cases in Pakistan

Rasool

2020

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Sexual assault is becoming a global epidemic, affecting close to a billion women throughout the world. This paper explores the challenges in the admissibility of DNA evidence in rape cases in Pakistan. Delays in the medical examination of victims, and improper collection and packaging of evidentiary material, compromise the probative biological evidence. In the last few years, existing laws have been amended to increase the utility of DNA evidence during criminal trials. However, various issues – for example lack of proper knowledge of DNA evidence by lawyers and judicial officers, inadequacies in existing laws and conflicting decisions of apex courts – can affect the admissibility of DNA evidence during criminal trials.

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“…It has passed nearly 9 years since their establishment, but no population database of allele frequencies of STR markers has been developed by either of the laboratories. NFSA is not currently doing any statistical calculations for forensic casework (Mateen et al 2018). The forensic report generated by DNA department of NFSA contains allelic match between the profile obtained from evidence and profile(s) obtained from the victim and/or suspect without any statistical calculation of estimating the probability of a match.…”

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Forensic science in Pakistan; present and future

Cited by 8 publications

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Articulation of the Right to Fair Trial and Forensic Science in the Criminal Justice System of Pakistan

Articulation of the Right to Fair Trial and Forensic Science in the Criminal Justice System of Pakistan

DNA evidence in sexual assault cases in Pakistan

Erroneous calculations of weight of DNA evidence may lead to miscarriage of justice in Pakistan

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