Caught through Finger Print

Success Story - 1

Once again the Fingerprint experts of the Central Finger Print Bureau (CFPB) have done the NCRB proud by cracking an inter state crime puzzle. This time round the CFPB was called upon for its exemplary services for the scene of crime Cr. No. 176/2009 u/s 457 & 380 IPC of PS Golagumbaz, Bijapur City, in the southern sate of Karnataka.

This is a case of the great human endeavor and cutting edge technology coming together to bring down the culprit of such a horrendous crime to justice. Skills and tenacity of the FP experts was once again pushed to the limits as this was a case of double trouble. The two chance prints that were recovered from the crime scene were partial prints with limited ridge characteristics. After extensive and intense analysis by the FP experts of CFPB the first chance print was reported TRACED against a record slip from November 2009. The second chance print had to be manually traced and it was successfully matched to the same record slip with the help of the FP experts from CFPB. These were processed in Fingerprint Analysis & Criminal Tracing System (FACTS). The expert efforts were put in by Shri A. K. Gaynar, Sub-Inspector, CFPB under the able guidance of Shri M.V.S.S Sastri, Inspector of CFPB.

With both the chance prints matching to a single record slip the identity of the culprit was established beyond doubt. He was Mohd. Abdul Farukh Seikh alias Farukh S/o Mohd. Zameel. He was convicted earlier by the Metropolitian Magistrate, Delhi, under the Arms Act, on 10-01-2007 to undergo RI for 5 months vide FIR No. 122/07, PS Kotwali, Delhi.

The experts were handsomely rewarded by Director General, NCRB.

Success Story - 2

The Fingerprint Experts of Central Finger Print Bureau, NCRB, New Delhi, have successfully identified a culprit with the help of chance prints developed from the scene of crime in Cr. No. 800/2009 U/s 395 IPC of Peerkankaranai Police Station, Chennai. On 24-11-2009, about six dacoits gained entry into a house under Peerkankaranai Police Station limits, Chennai, assaulted the lady inmate and took away the Ford Fiesta Car of the inmate, about 40 Gold sovereigns and Rs. 3 lakhs in cash. The culprits were speaking in Hindi. Three chance prints involved in Dacoity under Peerkankaranai Police Station, Chennai, were received for search in Central Finger Print Bureau, NCRB, New Delhi. The three chance prints received were partial prints which were difficult to decipher in view of the limited area of the prints available. These limitations were successfully overcome by the seasoned FP experts of CFPB. The chance prints were thoroughly scrutinized, scanned and meticulously edited. The three chance prints were thoroughly processed in the Fingerprint Analysis & Criminal Tracing System (FACTS). The culprit was successfully identified as Raju Shelar S/o Dhondiba Shelar, age 22 years R/o Bhopal Railway Station, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

The NCRB (CFPB) Data Bank also revealed that Raju Shelar was arrested earlier on three occasions by Maharashtra Police in connection with the following FIRs.

1. FIR No. 28/2001, PS – Kudal, Sindhudurg Dist., Maharashtra.
2. FIR No. 41/2001, PS – Vengurla, Sindhudurg Dist., Maharashtra.
3. FIR No. 82/2001, PS – Sawantwadi, Sindhudurg Dist., Maharashtra.

The positive identification of the culprit was possible due to the untiring, meticulous and thoroughly professional efforts of Shri S.K.Tiwari, Sub-Inspector, CFPB under the guidance of Shri M.V.S.S.Sastri, Inspector and overall supervision of Shri B.Roy, DySP, FACTS, CFPB. The verification by the FP Experts calls for summoning of all the expertise in closely comparing and co-relating the minute ridge characteristics of the chance print in their relative positions with that of data base prints. An Inter-state Dacoity was thus successfully cracked open. The experts were handsomely rewarded by Director General, NCRB.
 

Success Story - 3

A burglary was committed in a house in the night of September 30/1st October, 2007 in Dehradun. Gold and diamond ornaments worth Rs. 20 Lakhs were stolen.

The police was summoned immediately, who inspected the scene of crime thoroughly and questioned some people, the finger prints of eleven suspects were taken on the spot. Some finger prints from scene of crime were lifted as well and these were sent to Central Finger Print Bureau, NCRB, New Delhi for further examination on October 9th,2007.

In a report sent by NCRB's Central Finger Print Bureau on October 15th, 2007 one of the finger print was found identical with Right thumb of on Akham S/o Aamir of Fulas Akbarpur, Deoband, Saharanpur.

Uttaranchal Police immediately swung into action and arrested Ahkam. On interrogation he revealed the name of his accomplice in the crime as Amjad S/o Ayyaz of Bangoli, Muzzaffarpur. Both were booked and a big case of theft of gold and diamond ornaments of twenty lakhs was solved by the police within fifteen days and the stolen jewellery was recovered.

Success Story - 4

On the 17th August 2009, one Smt Lamynno Khongtani was found in a pool of blood in a dishevelled state by her daughter Smt. Stay Khongtani, who, strongly suspecting rape and murder, reported the incident at the P.S. Pynursla, East Khasi Hills, Shillong, Meghalaya. The case was registered, Case No. 21 (08) 2009 dated 17/08/2009, u/s 376/302 IPC. A Chance Finger Print was developed at the scene of crime. On the 21st August 2009, the police arrested three persons suspected to be involved in this case. The Chance print and the specimen 10-digit Finger impressions of one of the suspects, Julong Khongwet were refered by Supdt. of Police CID, SCRB Meghalaya, Shillong, received in CFPB, NCRB on 30th March 2010 for photograph of the chance print, comparison and expert opinion thereon.

Smt. Rekha Nagar, Finger Print Expert of CFPB, was assigned this case. The Chance print was of poor quality, developed with white powder. It was first photographed and a dia-positive print was prepared for the purpose of comparison. On thorough and careful examination the chance print was found identical with specimen right ring of arrested accused, Julong Khongwet. On interrogation, the accused admitted to having entered the premises of the victim, raped and the n murdered her by cutting her throat with a Khasi knife.

Success Story - 5

On the 18th July 2010, the Control room of Delhi Police received a telephone call reporting an unidentified dead body in Khari Baoli area of the walled city. The Lahori Gate Police Station officials then took charge of the situation, registered the case as Case - DD No. 8A on 18/07/2010, and had the corpse fingerprinted. The 10-digit finger Prints were referred to CFPB on the 26th July for identification.

Smt. Rekha Nagar, Finger Print Expert of CFPB, who was assigned this case, submitted the prints for matching in FACTS database after carefully editing the poor quality prints. On comparison and minute verification of Finger Impressions by Shri Ravinder Kumar Sharma, Inspector (FP), it was found that the print matched with those of one Brij Mohan S/o Lekh Raj, a resident of Chander Nager, P.S. Krishna Nagar, of East District Delhi. This person was a habitual criminal, arrested on three previous occasions, twice in January 1994 u/s 379 & 411 IPC, and again, in May 2003 u/s 27 61/85 NDPS Act.