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The state police can now bank on a forensic tool to achieve speedy convictions. For the first time in Maharashtra, life sentences were meted out to the accused based on the findings of Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature (BEOS) profiling. Reports of these tests, conducted at the state forensic lab in Kalina, were held admissible in sessions courts in two brutal cases of murder.
Last month, MBA students Aditi Sharma and her lover Pravin Khandelwal were pronounced guilty by a Pune sessions court for conspiring to murder a fellow student. The deceased, Udit Bharati, was Aditi’s ex-boyfriend and was poisoned with ‘ prasad ‘ laced with arsenic. In January, a supari shop employee Amin Bhoi was convicted by the Sewri sessions court for hammering his colleague to death and robbing the shop.
Both Aditi and Amin underwent BEOS tests and the findings clearly indicated their involvement in the murders. Both convictions were announced within 14 months of the arrests. During BEOS profiling, an accused is asked not to give answers verbally; experiential knowledge is retrieved from his brain. Experiential knowledge is acquired only through participation in an event, leading the person to have an experience of that activity. The technique detects and differentiates whether the accused was actually involved in committing a crime or only learnt of it. It helps in the reconstruction of events.