Webinar on Forensic Examination of IEDs in terrorist cases by PU’s Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology

Chandigarh, March 30, 2022: The Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology, Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a one day National level webinar on ‘Forensic Examination of IEDs in terrorist cases’ on March 30, 2022. The Chairperson, Dr. Vishal Sharma hosted the webinar and welcomed the guests. He emphasized the importance of the examination of IED DEVICES AND BLAST RESIDUE in order to understand the type of blast, its intensity and explosive used in the said blast. This topic is very important for the budding forensic students as the blast often happen in many region of the country. Such type of examination also important to know about the cross boarder terrorism.

The distinguished scientist and Forensic expert Dr. N.B.Bardhan, former Director of CFSL CBI, New Delhi, gave a talk titled Forensic Examination of IEDs in terrorist cases." He presented an intriguing talk about explosives. He started his talk with brief description about explosives and its types. He mentioned about the crime scene reconstruction of cases related to IED blast, further added properties of explosives and categorized explosives into five kinds. He further emphasized the need for considering and analyzing material evidence carefully as it often gets contaminated if not handled properly or at times get fabricated. He even added the mechanism of various explosives. He ended his talk by discussing some of the famous cases involving explosive devices such as Mumbai Blast Case and discussed some very unusual cases happening on IED blast these days.

More than 60 delegates participated in the webinar including Scientist from forensic labs, faculty and students and research scholars from various Universities. Dr. Vishal Sharma, Convener of the webinar, thanked the speaker and all the participants.