Abstract

RELEVANCE OF SEMEN SAMPLE IN SEXUAL ASSAULT INVESTIGATION

U. K. Kulkarni, K.V. Kulkarni, R. K. Pardeshi and D.V. Mane*

ABSTRACT

Among all the crimes, sex related crimes are most barbarous and humiliating. Rape is considered to be the most obnoxious and gravest form to human right violation. A large number of cases received in forensic science laboratory involve sexual assault cases, making it necessary to examine the exhibits for the presence of seminal fluid. In the sexual assault cases, When the suspected or alleged accused is medically examined by the doctors on the request of investigating officer, collection of semen sample has been sent to FSL for the identification of blood group. This may cause wastage of time and resources of health and home department and delay in disposal of cases leading to backlog and huge burden on forensic analyst and police. So there is a need to debate and discussion with investigating officers and doctors about the relevance of semen collection of accused. The objective of this paper is to discuss the purpose and relevance of collection of semen of alleged accused and furthermore, this paper focuses on the primary data which is related to sexual assault cases.

Keywords: seminal fluid, semen, sexual assault.