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In India, according to National Crime Records Bureau Report 2017, a child is sexually abused every 15 minutes. Sexual offences have deep psychological impact on the victims and their families and hence are one of the most heinous offences imaginable. The problem of sexual abuse needs to be addressed through less ambiguous and stringent punishment. The protection of children from sexual offences (POCSO) act 2012 was formulated to effectively address the heinous crimes related to child sexual abuse in India. DNA technology made it possible to give justice by identifying the source of biological samples detected in such criminal cases. In the instant case, an 18 months’ toddler who was kidnapped, raped and thrown in the forest was found by one of the villagers. She got justice by DNA analysis which proved involvement of the accused in the crime through semen detected on the victim’s clothes and the victim’s blood on the accused’s clothes.

Keywords: DNA, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Short Tandem Repeats, Genetic Analyzer