Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Forensic examination of clothes can furbish key evidences which can eventually aid in the overall investigation process. Apart from ascertaining the identity of individuals based on the garment itself, additional evidences of physical, biological, and, chemical nature, interlaced within the fabric can help reconstruct events leading up to the crime. Clothing evidence can also help in determining the manner of death, the location of a crime scene, and, oftentimes even the post-mortem interval. Clothes when encountered at a crime scene must be documented, collected and packaged carefully before subjecting them to characteristic predetermined tests to detect evidences of a specific nature.
Clothes, Identification, Forensic examination, Physical, Chemical, Biological evidence
