Aurangabad: To upgrade the investigative skills of the personnel and ensure convictions in serious body and property offences, the Aurangabad city police have devised a specific mechanism focussed on the gathering of corroborative evidence.
The mechanism will help the police present a 3-dimensional view of every case before the court of law. Moreover, all case-related data, including the chargesheet, would be additionally prepared in soft copy version and it will be made admissible in the court, before the trial of each case.
To get the desired results, the Aurangabad city’s cyber police have already imparted training on “Geographical Information System for Crime Investigation, Prosecution and Conviction” to 50 investigation officers (IOs) in the city.
“In the absence of an eyewitness to a crime, the possibility of an accused getting the benefit of the doubt is very high. To rule out such possibilities in future cases, corroborative evidence will play a greater role,” Aurangabad police commissioner Chiranjeev Prasad told TOI.
The officer said the new system will make it easier for the IOs to recall a case even years after its investigation.
The idea to devise a standard operating procedure (SOP) had come up after cyber police assistant inspector Rahul Khatavkar bagged the Union government’s prestigious e-Raksha national award for devising the technology earlier this year.
Khatavkar said, “Through this system, the IO will collect all the geographical data, including the spot from where the accused and co-accused (if any) started, the spot panchanama and complete chronology of events using latitude and longitude of every key location in the case.”
The officer said even the photographs of the crime scene, the forensic reports and visuals if any, would be attached in the system to make it fool-proof.
The city police are already using this technology in four serious offences — including the murder of two siblings by their relatives within the limits of the Satara area police station, and three other murders committed within the jurisdictions of the Pundalikanagar, Kranti Chowk and Cidco police stations.
Cyber police inspector Geeta Bagvade said: “Submitting the chargesheet in this innovative format would display the entire case in a 3D format, giving an upper hand to the prosecution in explaining as well as contesting the case in the court of law.”
To make it effective, a combination of the latest technology and traditional investigation techniques, a list of open source applications like Google Map, Google Earth and a few others would be used along with technical details. Eyewitness accounts would be used to prepare a 3D analysis of the entire case, including crime scene.
To get the desired results, it will be binding on the law officers to clear the chargesheet for filing in the court of law only after it meets the conditions of corroborative evidence.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/aurangabad-cops-device-corroborative-evidence-gathering-system-to-ensure-more-convictions/articleshow/77661574.cms