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As observed during academic research in Indian scenario, there has been enlarged prominence on the use of such technological tools in criminal investigation and trials. The Commissions appointed on reforms of criminal justice have repeated that the infusion of technology in crime detection can help the system to function efficiently. The relevant laws have been amended from time to time to make way for use of forensic technologies in crime investigation and trial. Yet, it may be said that there are existent flaws in the laws which need to be addressed. Due to their restrictive approach, or certain inherent defects in the evidence as produced in courts which deter them from relying on it entirely, the courts are also more or less hesitant to rely on scientific evidence. The primary objective of criminal justice system is to tender fair justice to all. Unquestionably, Forensic evidence is more genuine, authentic than visual evidence. Therefore, Forensic science being scientific evidence is more beneficial for criminal justice system. We have to overpower the existing defects to step forward in a highly developed field of investigation. As we must keep on learning from the past experiences, disrupt our thinking process, reinforce certain positive things in the community and change our ethos. This means working together towards a resolution of the scientific deficiencies within existing forensic evidence while providing a firm basis for new innovative technologies entering into the forensic science ecosystem. Simultaneously, they is a need to ensure that the law enforcement and investigative communities once again be acquainted with and get familiar with the use of forensic science to its complete prospective as well as a holistic problem-solving tool (for example, through the use of the case assessment and interpretation methodology). Such a methodology is rooted within a gallows that agrees for an understanding of the contribution that a specific evidence type could meaningfully deliver in terms of sub-source, source, activity or offence-level propositions for a given set of case specific circumstances rather than restricting it to a unaccompanied or one-dimensional reactive process. A contextualized means of evaluative reporting of forensic science data pertinent to a particular case but held in the context of that case where alternative propositions can be attended to and challenged correctly, works to fulfill this problem-solving potential. Such an approach has been suggested by the Association of Forensic Science Providers among others.