Documentary and oral Scientific expert Evidence and Modes of Scientific Examination under Pakistani Laws

Abstract

The crime scene operation and the investigative process is important stage of pretrial construction of the events for assessment of occurrence of crime which helps to collect the material or physical evidence to be presented before the court during a trial. This process hinges upon intelligent and expert handling of the crime scene so that the prosecution may build the case beyond reasonable doubt and to link the evidence with real criminal instead of conviction of innocent. This paper presents an overview of the kind of evidence with relation to the crime scene which is important for the assessment that what expertise and scientific examinations might be needed for a potential crime scene investigation. In doing so, this paper underlines the kinds of expert evidence with reference to law of evidence in Pakistan and emphasizes legal perspective to be kept in mind while investigative operation is conducted.