LLM Group 5 Criminal Law and Criminal Administration Forensic Science and Scientific Investigation of Crime Solved Question Papers with Answers 2015 to 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Forensic Science and Scientific Investigation of Crime is Paper VI of LLM Group V, Criminal Law and Criminal Administration, and the current subject code is 70511. The first thing to settle is how many papers this folder actually holds. There are seven uploads and ten separate printed papers, because three of the scans contain two complete and different question papers rather than one paper spread over two pages. The 2015 file is Q.P. Code 15890 on page one and Q.P. Code 27238 on page two; the 2016 file is Q.P. Code 312301 and Q.P. Code 11894; and the 2018 file is Q.P. Code 32879 and Q.P. Code 70511 on printer's form 57683. All ten are solved here, so the 2015, 2016 and 2018 pages each carry fourteen answers and restart the numbering at one for the second paper. The 2023 file, by contrast, genuinely is one paper in two languages: both pages carry form 27734 and the same barcode.

Every one of the ten papers has the same shape, and it has not moved in eleven years: three hours, one hundred marks, seven questions, answer any four, all questions carrying equal marks, which makes each question worth twenty five. Only one paper prints any figure against a question at all. Form 27734 of 2023 splits its sixth question twelve and thirteen and its seventh thirteen and twelve, and those splits sum to twenty five, which confirms the arithmetic the other nine papers leave you to do.

Modern devices in crime control and prevention is the only topic set on all ten papers, and it accounts for eleven of the seventy questions. Below it come short note questions on twelve occasions across eight papers, forensic ballistics nine times across eight papers, INTERPOL nine times across nine papers, the history and development of forensic science eight times across eight, forensic science laboratories eight times across eight, and narco-analysis six times across six. Fingerprints appear on three papers. Four topics appear once in the whole folder: drunken driving, the analysis of a questioned document, the definition and scope of forensic science, and forensic biology with serology and DNA profiling.

Those counts produce the most useful fact in this note, and it was computed by testing every combination of topics against every paper rather than estimated by eye. No set of four topics will give you four answerable questions on all ten papers. Exactly four sets of five will, and forensic ballistics, modern devices and the short note questions appear in every one of those four sets, which is another way of saying that none of the three can be dropped. Add INTERPOL or narco-analysis to those three and you have four answerable questions on every paper in the folder.

This examiner reuses whole questions word for word, which is worth more than any general advice about coverage. Eight stems recur verbatim across different papers. The bare instruction to discuss and elaborate forensic ballistics appears in identical words on five of the ten papers, spanning 2015 to 2019. The instruction to discuss the functions and role of INTERPOL appears on four, as does the instruction to explain the use of different modern devices in crime control and prevention, and so does the differently worded instruction to enlist modern devices and explain any three of them in detail. The narco-analysis question, with its tail about efficacy, reliability and judicial procedure, is identical on the 2024-25 and 2025-26 papers, and the fingerprint question is identical on the 2023 and 2024-25 papers.

Read the newest paper first, because it is the one that breaks the pattern. Form 07369, sat on 9 April 2026, is the only paper in the folder that asks you to define forensic science and explain its nature, scope, objectives and importance, and the only one that asks about forensic biology and serology with DNA profiling. Both of those stems end with an express demand for Indian case law, which no earlier paper in this folder makes. That paper also separates two questions the older papers ran together, asking about modern techniques of crime control at question three and about modern devices at question six. A candidate who has prepared only on the older papers will have read a great deal about instruments and still not be able to answer either of the two new questions.

Two faults in the papers are worth knowing before you revise. The 2019 paper, printer's form 78436, prints two different totals on the same sheet: the English head reads seventy marks and the Marathi head reads one hundred. One hundred is taken here, because it is a figure the paper itself prints, because every other paper in the folder is one hundred, and because the paper's own any four rule divides one hundred into four questions of twenty five but divides seventy into four of seventeen and a half. The same paper drops a word from its second question, which reads discuss in detail about modern of crime control; the Marathi of that question asks about modern devices, and it is answered as such. Separately, the 2016 first paper and both 2018 papers run their sub-part lettering continuously across two different questions, so that a question begins at c or at C rather than at a, and that is reproduced here because a candidate who renumbers is answering a question the sheet does not contain.

One more repetition is worth flagging because it changes how you should revise. The second 2015 paper, Q.P. Code 27238, sets forensic ballistics twice on the same sheet, once as a bare instruction to discuss and elaborate and once as a proposition about detecting and prosecuting firearm related crimes. Both are answered in full and on different lines, because the wording decides the answer: a bare discuss stem rewards the science, the three divisions of ballistics and the distinction between class and individual characteristics, while a stem naming prosecution rewards the case law, which on this topic runs unbroken from 1950 to 2023 and says the same thing throughout.

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