A special court for criminal cases against former/current deputies and MLA, who condemned the former Member of Hassan, Prajwal Revann, and sentenced him to life in prison for the rest of his natural life, all in a year and four months after registration, recognized a special investigative team (SIT) for his first of the ITS-. “.
BK Singh, in 1996-ips, currently published as the next CEO of the police, the CID investigation (CID) department, led SIT and led several key investigations in the carnation against high-ranking public persons.
Over the past eight years, he led three place to the murders of editor-activist Gauri Lankesh, the scholars of MM Kalburgi and the crimes of Prajwal Revanna and Mla Munirathn. He supervised the probe into the POCSO case against the former main minister Yediyupp, and now he is also investigating Stampede at the M. Chinnaswama stadium, who killed 11.
In its judgment convicted of the convicted prajwal Revanna, the court relying on three key evidence – the victim’s statement, the forensic report on the video of the law filmed by the accused, which confirmed his identity, even though his face was not visible and DNA report. Can you explain the technique involved in the investigation?
In the case of rape, usually except the testimony of the victim, what we have is biomedical evidence, which was not here, because the crimes were reported at least three years later. Instead, we had a video in which the accused filmed his act without being visible his facial features. It is important that forensic reports have confirmed that they have not been modified or transformed. The voice sample match was also positive.
Then we examined how many significant brands were identifiable on the visible parts of the accused in the video. Photos and videos from the bodies of the defendants taken in custody were compared to the videos. We could find five to eight stamps and some of the deformities that coincided. On this basis, the forensic laboratory concluded that it was mathematically impossible for another person to have the same grades and deformities at the same points on the body.
We performed the same exercise for the crime scene. The room in which the victim was raped to Gannikad Farmhouse in Hassan was demolished in 2022. Forensic reports conclude that the video was taken in the same place or at a similarly dressed place.
In the case of Gauri Lankesh, you used the technology called “Gait Analysis” for Forensic shooter identification in this case. This forensic technique was used for the first time in the country.
It almost works on the same principle. Walking every person or walking style is different. In the case of Gauri Lankesha, the CCTV camera captured in a shooter with a helmet, his face was not visible, stood at the gate and shot at the victim. We also preserved the scene of the crime and the angle of the camera. When we caught a suspicious shooter, we again created a scene that was re -captured by the same CCTV camera. We sent the shots of both videos (DFS headquarters), gujarat. The corresponding frame image and each step of the person in both videos have returned positively that the man in both videos is the same. This technique now uses many agencies across the country.
In the three main investigations, you led Gauri Lankesh, Prajwal Revanna and Munirathn – you have gathered the evidence of DNA connecting the accused with the victim or scene of the crime, even many years after the crime. How did it happen?
You must be very thorough in search of search and sausure and collect everything you get.
In the case of Prajwal Revanna we searched many places, but we found nothing. But when we asked the victims about clothes that were seen in the video, she told us she was thrown out of work, nor was she allowed to collect her stuff. We sent the team to check and another worker who came and occupied the neighborhood, put all his belongings in the plastic cover and held it aside. We found that the clothing she was wearing when she was raped, and forensic experts found traces of the accused semen.
DNA samples only deteriorate in a wet climate. In this case, it was kept in a plastic cover and dried up and in such cases would not get worse for decades.
In the case of Gauri Lankesh we got a toothbrush, comb and some hair samples. After putting them in the plastic cover, they threw the brush and comb. She tied the defendant with the house they rented in the murder.
In the case of Gauri Lankesh, you got an empty bullets shot from the murder weapon that the accused used for the target practice, from the tree in the jungle in Belagavi. Although you could not restore the murder weapon in the case, this evidence connects the weapon with the accused.
My idea is always to rely on human witnesses. The chances of becoming hostile or forgetting something while providing evidence are higher. So I always try to minimize human witnesses as much as possible and rely on scientific evidence.
