Independent forensic audits, expert opinions and courtroom testimony for defence counsel and legal aid across India, with the same scientific authority as the State.
Six core services delivered by empanelled senior forensic scientists, calibrated to your court’s calendar and grounded in Indian evidentiary law.
Structured scientific review against SWGDAM, ISO 17025, and applicable Indian standards.
Signed, court-admissible opinion under Section 39, BSA 2023, authored by senior scientists.
Question-by-question tactical guide targeting procedural lapses and interpretive overreach.
Plain-language brief for the Bench on what the evidence proves, and what it does not.
In-person or video testimony from empanelled senior scientists at any judicial level.
Early identification of evidentiary vulnerabilities. Free of charge, within 48 hours.
An FSL report reaches court as a conclusion. Behind it sit raw data, electropherograms, calibration records and validation logs. Our scientists read them the way the State’s analyst did, and tell you where the conclusion goes further than the data.
The FSL report, the charge sheet and the case details, through the secure form. Every submission is treated as a confidential professional engagement.
A senior forensic scientist reads past the conclusion to the data it was drawn from. A confident result can rest on a degraded sample or a signal too faint to call, and only the data shows it.
A Technical Audit Report, a signed Expert Opinion and a Cross-Examination Brief, written for counsel and for the Bench. Each one is backed by court-admissible scientific and legal references.
Where the case needs it, our scientist testifies in trial and Sessions courts, in person or by video. In the High Courts and the Supreme Court, we file well-framed technical affidavits in support of counsel.
In Kattavellai @ Devakar v. State of Tamil Nadu, the swabs reached the laboratory six weeks after they were taken, with no record of who held them. The Supreme Court discarded the DNA evidence, acquitted the accused and set nationwide rules for DNA samples.
Here the gap was a delay and a missing custody record, both visible on the face of the case papers. The science inside a report, the DNA profile, the thresholds and the calls made on it, can only be tested by a scientist reading the underlying data.
6 weeks
from collection to the laboratory
48 hours
the Court’s new limit for samples to reach the laboratory
DNA evidence collected and kept without proper methods and procedures has to be discarded, however strong it looks.
Scientific foundation for independent case review, cross-examination strategy, and expert witness support across all judicial levels.
A rigorous second opinion on the government FSL report, through direct submission or legal aid referral.
Open to structured MOU partnerships with SLSA and DLSA to deliver expert forensic reviews on monthly case lists, eliminating per-case court orders.
Technical forensic integration for NGOs, prison legal aid clinics, and law school clinics handling active criminal caseloads.
Scientific foundation for independent case review, cross-examination strategy, and expert witness support across all judicial levels.
A rigorous second opinion on the government FSL report, through direct submission or legal aid referral.
Open to structured MOU partnerships with SLSA and DLSA to deliver expert forensic reviews on monthly case lists, eliminating per-case court orders.
Technical forensic integration for NGOs, prison legal aid clinics, and law school clinics handling active criminal caseloads.
Fide Forensic Foundation is India’s first independent forensic review institution. Our panel is made up of former forensic scientists from India’s leading government laboratories, who bring that laboratory experience to the defence side of criminal proceedings.
Fide
Latin for faith and trust. Justice is only trustworthy when the science behind it is independently verified.
28 States & 8 UTs
Served pan-India
48 hrs
Response time
₹0
For legal aid matters
7-point
Audit protocol
Fide Forensic Foundation provides audits across the full spectrum of forensic science admitted in Indian courts.
Submit the report today. Our experts respond within 48 hours with a clear view on whether an independent review is needed.
