Fingerprints all over India as states add experts and police seek Aadhaar biometrics

The fingerprint unit of Haryana’s state crime records bureau (SRCB), which provides biometric verification and analysis for fingerprints collected at crime scenes, is seeing an overhaul, according to a report in the Times of India.

The deployment of fingerprint experts to district offices and mobile forensic units is part of a strategy to maximize the collection of so-called “chance prints” (otherwise known as latent prints) at crime scenes. Verification and analysis will be run through the National Crime Records Bureau’s …

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