CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Maharashtra: 1st state to adopt digital fingerprint and iris scanning system.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Chinese were the first culture known to have used friction ridge impressions as a means of identification. The earliest example comes from a Chinese document en- titled “The Volume of Crime Scene Investigation-Burglary”, from the Qin Dynasty (221 to 206 B.C.).

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1892 Juan Vucetich, an Argentine chief police officer, created the first method of recording the fingerprints of individuals on file. In that same year, Francisca Rojas was found in a house with neck injuries, whilst her two sons were found dead with their throats cut.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1882, Gilbert Thompson of the U.S. Geological Survey in New Mexico, used his own thumb print on a document to help prevent forgery. This is the first known use of fingerprints in the United States.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first ever Finger Print Bureau in the world was established at Writer’s Building at Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the year 1897.