ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The whorls, arches and loops that make fingerprints unique are produced during fetal development by waves of tiny ridges that form on the fingertip, spread and then collide with each other-similar to the process that gives a zebra its stripes, or a cheetah its spots.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ancient Babylonians pressed the tips of their fingertips into clay to record business transactions. The Chinese used ink-on-paper finger impressions for business and to help identify their children. However, fingerprints weren’t used as a method for identifying criminals until the 19th century.

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: -On 12 June 1897, the Council of the Governor General of India approved a committee report that fingerprints should be used for the classification of criminal records. The Anthropometric Bureau in Kolkata (now Calcutta) became the world’s first Fingerprint Bureau later that year.