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Filling the Gap: Investigation-Conviction An analysis of Criminal Investigation system in India

Criminal Judicial system of any country more or less is dependent on the investigation report which have direct link with crime conviction ratio . There may be various reasons for poor conviction ratio like shortage of police force, delayed reporting of the cases, long judicial trial, unavailability of evidence etc. The last one is directly related with the investigation. However, there may be various reasons for non availability of evidence, because evidence includes both oral and documentary evidence. In regard to oral evidence there are two types of evidence first the statement of accused himself and second one is the statements of witnesses.   Right to remain silent is major hurdle in respect to statement of accused and on other side lackness of administrative or judicial support in regard to other witnesses. So basically the police have to depend on other sources of evidence which are generally collected from crime scene. Selection and collection of evidence are two different t