Role of DNA Fingerprinting in Uniting an Abandoned Baby Girl with her Biological Mother - Case Report.

DNA fingerprinting analysis is used to solve cases of murder, rape, paternity, child swapping, immigration and many more. Sir Alec John Jeffry, also known as the Father of DNA Fingerprinting, first applied DNA profiling in the field of forensic science in the late 1980s. A case of disputed maternity was registered by Delhi Police. The victim of the case complained of missing her baby girl. After two months of investigation, it was found that about two months earlier a baby girl was found abandoned near a canal in the jurisdiction of another Police Station. After the direction of the Child Welfare Committee, doctors preserved the blood samples of the victim and the baby girl. Delhi Police deposited the preserved blood samples of the victim, and the baby girl at Forensic Science Laboratory, Rohini, Delhi for DNA Fingerprint Analysis to solve the case of disputed maternity. The DNA profiling performed on the blood samples of the victim and the baby girl confirmed that the victim is the biological mother of the abandoned baby girl and solved the disputed maternity case with absolute certainty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]