GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE

About Department

Department of Forensic Science is the leading department of the Institute. The department is essentially involved with crime scene investigation (CSI), examination of questioned documents and fingerprint analysis. Moreover, the department helps other departments for forensic related examination and research in allied disciplines. The department is having world class instrumentation facilities in the field of CSI, document examination and fingerprint analysis. To name a few, VSC 6000/HS, ESDA-2, MVC 1000 and Crime-lite. Recently, the department has developed Multimedia Forensics facilities in the department which is involved in forensic speaker identification, audio, video and image authentication and enhancement of multimedia files including CCTV footage.

 The department is involved in training of police officers and officials from the state of Maharashtra in crime scene investigation and other forensic disciplines. Moreover, special training program and workshops are also organized for police personnel as per their requirements and need. Besides, the department often helps police departments by analyzing their samples for different forensic related cases and crime scene reconstruction.

Faculty Members

Departmental Activities

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  Online Two Day’s National Workshop on 14th & 15th June 2021June 9, 2021
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  International Webinar Series (e-forensics 2020)July 5, 2020
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  State Level Workshop was held on 29th February 2020February 29, 2020
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  State Level Workshop on Forensic Science for Legal Professional (WFLP 2020)February 12, 2020
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  Guest Lecture on “Ballistics”August 2, 2016

Specialization students

Name of the Student	Dissertation topic
Amruta Ashok Karadge	Effect of medications on handwriting
Purnima Chandrakant Deshpande	Effect of age on Handwriting
Anuraj Kailash Khandelwal	A pattern recognition approach for printing process identification
Sayali Satish Khandare	Effect of  increasing imitation skills on   identification of forged signatures
Ganesh Ramesh Shelar	A study on effect of temperature on printed  document from inkjet printer
Priya Bhagwan Tagre	Effect of  UV light radiation on document  printed from laser printer

The basic instrumentation includes :

The various kits available for onsite testing are :

The instruments for research specialized use include:

part from the above mentioned facilities we are well equipped with 2 skeleton models, metal detectors, breath analysers and various educational charts and posters.

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