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DNA evidence crucial in rape
August 18th, 2009
By Our Correspondent , Hyderabad

Aug. 17: DNA fingerprinting was now being used widely to convict multiple accused in gang rape cases, said the former director of CCMB, Dr Lalji Singh. He was inaugurating a national level work shop on “DNA — the decisive evidence” in the Andhra Pradesh Police Academy (APPA) near Himayat Sagar here on Monday. The three-day workshop is being jointly organised with Bio Axis DNA Research Centre in Hyderabad. Additional DGP and director of APPA, Dr C.N. Gopinatha Reddy, and IGP and additional director of APPA, Mr Rajiv Trivedi, also attended the workshop. Dr Reddy said DNA sometimes provides clinching evidence in bringing a culprit to book and lauded the efforts of Dr Singh in framing a blueprint to help DNA fingerprinting to be made substantive evidence in court. Dr Singh said the AP Police was ahead of others in using science in crime investigation. In his presentation, he pointed out that DNA fingerprinting was being used to identify paternity, maternity, wildlife conservation, patenting plants and to establish pedigree of horses and dogs of special breeds. In crime investigation, it was being used in assassination, rape and murder cases, he said. Dr Singh pointed out that DNA evidence was crucial in achieving breakthroughs in crime investigations which included the tandoor murder case, and the murder cases in which Swami Shradhananda and Swami Premananda were convicted. APPA trainees, academicians, scholars and bio-science students from all over the country attended the workshop.

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Importance of biotechnology highlighted
Tribune News Service
Yamunanagar, December 21

Bioinformatics and biotechnology have great scope in the country and abroad. So, students should do their best in these fields for their bright future, said Amit Kumar, CEO, Bioaxis Research Centre, Hyderabad, while explaining the method of analysing nucleic acids and proteins, prediction of third structure, microarray analysis, fields of functional genomic and medical informatics to students.

He was addressing a seminar on bioinformatics and biotechnology at the Life Sciences Department of DAV College for Girls here recently. Dr Satyajeet Parija, research coordinator, gave information about biological database, software and analysis of biological date and pharma research. Besides it, he also explained the techniques such as isolation of DNA from human blood and plants.

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DNA microarray technology the future: Lalji Singh
Staff Reporter

The next generation DNA microarray facility at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has the potential for developing DNA chips that will be helpful in crime detection.

The next generation DNA microarray facility at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has the potential for developing DNA chips. These, when developed, could be instrumental in establishing the identity of an individual at the entire genome level, said Lalji Singh, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow 2009 and former director of the centre.Explaining the significance of the development, he said the DNA chip would make the process of establishing a match between a biological sample found at a crime scene and the DNA of a suspect faster and simpler.

"This will be the ultimate technique based on the comparison at the total genome level. This is the future technology," he told police trainees and researchers at the Andhra Pradesh Police Academy (APPA) on Monday.

Dr. Singh was taking part in the inaugural of a three-day, national-level training-cum-workshop on 'DNA - The Decisive Evidence' organised at the APPA in association with Bioaxis DNA Research Centre, a city-based research organisation.

DNA chip is the future: Lalji

http://www.thehindu.com/2009/08/18/stories/2009081859720600.htm
Andhra Pradesh, Tuesday, Aug 18, 2009
Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: The next generation DNA microarray facility at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has the potential for developing DNA chips. These, when developed, would be instrumental in establishing identity of an individual at the entire genome level, said Lalji Singh, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow 2009 and former director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.

Explaining the significance of such a development, he said it would make the process of establishing a match between a biological sample found at a crime scene and the DNA of a suspect faster and simpler with the aid of a DNA chip. “This will be the ultimate technique based on the comparison at the total genome level. This is the future technology,” he told police trainees and researchers at the Andhra Pradesh Police Academy (APPA) here on Monday.

Dr. Lalji was taking part in the inaugural of a three-day, national-level training-cum-workshop on ‘DNA - The Decisive Evidence’ organised at APPA in association with Bioaxis DNA Research Centre, a city-based research organisation.

The workshop was significant in view of the fact that DNA bill is in the process of being enacted by the Parliament this year. When implemented, the bill, which has a provision for post conviction testing of DNA, would be a boon for convicts/under trials who were falsely convicted/accused for lack of proper evidence, according to C.N. Gopinatha Reddy, Additional DGP and Director of APPA.

Dr. Lalji stressed on the importance of collecting swab samples from victims of rape and storing them. “DNA testing can establish identities of even multiple rapists,” Dr. Lalji informed senior police officers. Earlier he threw light on how DNA analysis was employed to gather evidence in prominent cases like Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Beant Singh assassination case, Tandoor murder case, Swamy Premananda case etc. He also spoke about the evolution of DNA analysis techniques.

“DNA analysis will be one of the best investigating and evidence tool,” said Dr. Reddy. “It might be Greek and Latin for some of you but we must also learn Greek and Latin. We should at least have minimum knowledge about this scientific investigating tool,” he told the police trainees. The function was attended by many senior police officials.

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     DNA technology to witness dramatic changes in 5 years: Expert

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     Updated on Monday, August 17, 2009, 20:21 IST

Hyderabad: DNA technology is set to witness dramatic changes in the next five years resulting in reduced time needed for conducting tests with increased accuracy, said former Director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) Lalji Singh here on Monday.

Singh who undertook DNA tests in several sensational cases across the country said, "The newer technologies for conducting DNA tests would drastically reduce the time needed for conducting tests with increased accuracy."

Singh was delivering a key-note address at the inauguration of a three-day national-level workshop on 'DNA-The Decisive Evidence' at the Andhra Pradesh Police Academy (APPA) here. DNA Chip/Microarray technology has a potential for development of DNA chips for establishing identity of an individual at the entire genome level, he said.

"If and when such a DNA chip for establishing identity is developed, it would become very simple and very fast to establish match of the biological sample found at the scene of crime and the DNA of the suspect with that of the DNA chip," he said adding this technology will be the ultimate technique based on the comparison at the total genome level.

Singh said DNA is very stable and can be isolated from the biological remains of thousands of year-old and even from fossils, that are 2.5 million year-old.

"We have ourselves isolated DNA from remains found in Himalayas which are 1,700 years old," he added.

The former Director of CCMB said there was a necessity to identify biological material in the absence of any fingerprint at the scene of crime and the dream of forensic scientists was fulfilled in 1985 by the discovery of DNA fingerprinting by Prof Alec Jeffreys of University of Leicester, UK.

Singh pointed out that DNA pattern of an individual from every tissue of the body is the same and it does not change with age.

He said countries like United States collect blood samples of their soldiers which are preserved and utilised to identify the missing and injured soldiers during wars.

"Even blood samples of every new-born child in US is stored to establish the identity of missing child," he added.

APPA Director C N Gopi Natha Reddy said the DNA bill which is prepared by the Hyderabad-based institutes CDFD and NALSAR, is in the process of being enacted by Parliament this year.

"This is going to be a boon for those convicts/undertrials, who were wrongly convicted/accused for lack of proper evidence and spending lives in jails," he said.

Bureau Report

Dramatic changes expected in DNA testing technology

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Updated on Monday, August 17, 2009, 21:39 IST

Hyderabad: Technology of DNA testing is expected to witness dramatic changes in the next five years resulting in reduced time needed for conducting tests with increased accuracy, a senior molecular scientist said on Monday.

"The newer technologies for conducting DNA tests would drastically reduce the time needed for conducting tests with increased accuracy," said Lalji Singh, former Director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB).

Singh, who undertook DNA tests in several sensational cases across the country, was delivering a key-note address at the inauguration of a three-day workshop on 'DNA-The Decisive Evidence' at the Andhra Pradesh Police Academy (APPA) here.

DNA Chip or Microarray technology has a potential for development of DNA software chips for establishing identity of an individual at the entire genome level, he said.

"If and when such a DNA chip for establishing identity is developed, it would become very simple and very fast to establish match of the biological sample found at the scene of crime and the DNA of the suspect with that of the DNA chip," he explained.

APPA Director C N Gopi Natha Reddy said the DNA bill which has been prepared by the Hyderabad-based institutes CDFD and NALSAR is in the process of being enacted by parliament this year.

"This is going to be a boon for those who were wrongly convicted or accused in any case due to lack of proper evidence," he said.

Bureau Report
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