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Dehradun, Feb. 8 -- The seven-month exercise of DNA testing has finally yielded result. The Uttarakhand police have nailed the culprit in the minor girl's rape and murder case that last year rocked Lalkuan, a small town, some 300 kms from here. Investigations have revealed that the minor girl's maternal uncle had raped and then strangled her. Police have arrested the culprit after the matching of DNA sample.

Director general of police Satyavrat Bansal has announced a reward of Rs. 20,000 and DIG Nainital range Sanjay Gunjyal has announced a reward of Rs. 5000 for the police team.

This is said to be the first case in the state that has been solved with the help of DNA testing.

Some unknown person had raped and murdered Sanjana, 8, of Tiwarinagar, Bindukhatta on July 10, 2012.

DIG Sanjay Gunjyal disclosed the details of the investigation in the multipurpose hall of thana Lalkuan on Thursday. He said that accused Deepak Arya of Tiwari Nagar had been arrested after his DNA sample tested positive. The accused has confessed to the crime.

SSP Dr Sadanand Date said that the DNA profile of the accused was taken from the vaginal fluid of the girl.

About 57 DNA samples were taken during the investigation, out of which Deepak's sample was sent at number 55.

Dr Sadanand said that this was a unique case solved by DNA testing. It is noteworthy that the Maharashtra police had caught a murderer after conducting 900 DNA tests.

Published by HT Syndication with permission from Hindustan Times.

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Minor's rape, murder: DNA test nails culprit

One day youll be handed an electronic copy of your sequenced genome on a flash drive, maybe a phone app. Youll need to know how to keep it safe.

Were hurtling towards a future in which our DNA data will be cheaply generated and routinely summoned. Preparing for that, a UC Irvine team has created an app that can store a digital copy of a fully sequenced genome on a smartphone.

This Android app,GeneDroid, can spit out the results of a paternity test in under a second, Fierce Mobile Health Care reported recently. (You can download a version of that app, called Father Finder, from the Google Play store.) Say you were on a first date, Gene Tsudik, one of the apps architects has explained, You and the other person could hold up your phones, exchange tiny amounts of encrypted information and be able to determine how much common ancestry you have.

GeneDroid could also be used in regular clinical settings: to develop a genetically targeted treatment routine, or screen for how likely you are to develop a disease. But GeneDroids creators have found a way to encrypt the sensitive data so genomic factoids can be securely accessed on-the-fly. When its used for a certain kind of test, only a small amount of relevant data is pulled up, decrypted and used for comparison, New Scientist explains. The app itself doesnt reveal any informationonly the results of the test.

In this version of the future where were swapping genome histories over coffee,its likely that questions about privacy and security as applied to genetic data will leak into the discussion.People who arent experts in genetics or security will be curious about how their personal data stored and kept secure: Who has access to their personal genome? What can they do to keep it safe? Could you choose to share personal genetic data with just your doctor but not others?(Of course, researchers have beentackling the subjectfor years.)

Many of us continue to ask similar questions of services like Facebook, which also deals in a kind of personal data. Though Facebook is easy to use, wading through its privacy and security policies is harder. (Though, Facebook is trying to make such information more accessible, through a redesign of its Help Center, by designating a page for policy updates, and rolling out a new feature called Ask Our CPO.)

When we get to the point where we can store and swap genetic data in as much time as it takes to snap and share a photo on Instagram, well need security backup from tools like the GeneDroid. Alongside that, well also need clear explanations of how those safety measures operate and the limits to which theyll protect our data. We carry around credit cards and use them everywhere, even though theyre physical links to sensitive and private financial informationbut most of us know not to share our security code.

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DNA Data, Security, and You

8 February 2013 Last updated at 03:13 ET By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website

Cross-border co-operation on terrorism and crime will be compromised unless the UK updates the technology it uses for DNA profiling, experts have warned.

The country where the technique was developed now lags behind almost all European countries, which use newer processes to handle crime samples.

But plans to destroy millions of stored DNA samples could increase police workloads when the UK upgrades.

A select committee is hearing evidence on the state of UK forensic science.

The EU has recommended that member states adopt a standard set of 12 genetic markers - or loci - called the European Standard Set (ESS).

The large number of profiles held in different European databases that could potentially be compared necessitated standardisation, and an increase in the number of markers used to match them.

One purpose of the ESS was to reduce the potential for chance, or adventitious, matches between unrelated individuals. If investigators are comparing profiles generated using different sets of markers, there might not be enough of them in common to exclude such adventitious matches.

The timeline for implementation has now passed. Information obtained by the BBC shows that of 15 European countries for which data is available, the UK is one of four that has not upgraded to the recommended marker set.

Data collected in April 2012

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