NARCOANALYSIS: CONNECTING SCIENCE WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Author – Khusbu Priyadarshinee, Student at National Law University, Odisha

BEST CITATION – Khusbu Priyadarshinee, NARCO ANALYSIS: CONNECTING SCIENCE WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 3 (1) OF 2023, PG. 737-743, ISSN – 2583-2344.

ABSTRACT

Criminal justice system in India is conventional but criminals today are evolving, so we need to reconfigure the entire system. There needs to be incorporation of both science and the law, i.e., addition of scientific evidence to aid in the efficient administration of justice. The system of justice has become increasingly dependent on medical science to administer justice, yet it is still debatable to what extent this medical information should be considered admissible. An effort in this article to show so that this kind of evidence can be used for effective administration of justice. With the recent Shraddha Walker Murder Case, where the accused named Aftab Poonawala has murdered his live-in-partner and the court has ordered for the narcoanalysis test, the debate as to whether the usage of such procedures in investigation lead to violation of fundamental rights of the accused has surfaced again. This Article states the position of Narcoanalysis in India starting with its origin, the procedure, and its legality under the Indian Evidence Act. It also discusses about its admissibility as scientific evidence in Court with help of cases where such procedure has aided in investigation.