Prakasam police were clueless in investigating a case relating to murder of a person with multiple injuries near Singarayakonda in 2005 and closed the case as unidentified murder in 2008 with the permission of the court concerned in Kandukur.
With the State replacing the Fingerprint Analysis and Criminal Tracking System(FACTS) with the latest Papillon Automated Fingerprint Identification System(AFIS), the 13-year-old murder case was reopened and resolved, explained Finger Print Bureau(FPB) Director V.Somasekar Reddy at a media conference here on Friday.
Intense interrogation
An analysis of the database of the fingerprints collected over a period in a scientific manner enabled the police to zero in on one Seetharamaiah, who was also involved in another established case. Intense interrogation of the accused led to resolving of the murder of a car driver on the intervening night of July 21/22, 2005 based on the evidences on hand, said Prakasam Superintendent of Police B.Satya Yesu Babu.
Involvement of one Seetaramaiah was detected by using the next generation biometric system leading to the arrest of one of his accomplices Madhavaiah. Yet another accused Chandrasekar died in a road mishap during the course of time. It was established that the accused persons addicted to liquor had taken a lift, robbed him of ₹600 in cash and smashed the car driver’s head with a boulder before abandoning the car in a field at Gavadagatlavaripalem, near Singarayakonda, he explained.
Database
The FPB Director urged people not to disturb the evidences left by the offenders at the scene of crime for the police to detect the cases quickly. With the latest technology in place, the State police are in a position to detect most difficult cases thanks to creation of a database of over eight lakh finger prints, he added.