IP International Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicological Sciences 2023;8(2):65–68 Content available at: https://www.ipinnovative.com/open-access-journals IP International Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicological Sciences Journal homepage: http://www.ijfmts.com/ Original Research Article Impact of emerging technology on recent criminal scenario Reeta R Gupta 1, *, Asha Srivastava 1 1 Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Lodi Road, New Delhi, India ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 16-07-2023 Accepted 22-07-2023 Available online 27-07-2023 Keywords: Forensic Science Cyber Fraud Cyber Crime ABSTRACT Today the world is fully acknowledged by the digital Technology with a constant dependency of staying connected with everything. In this era of world and after the world experiencing covid pandemic, a new dimension of use of digital/ cyber technology and digitalization in all area including home to office work in day-to-day life emerged with broad spectrum. Technology has given a significant contribution in societal change with digital world in all aspects such as the medical instruments used in surgical treatment of various cardiac, pulmonary diseases orthopedic as well as carcinogenic diseases; cellular connectivity with accuracy &consistency and timeless feasibility of data transfer and money transactions from one hand to another hand. With advancement of technology on a daily basis a significant impact can be seen on the society. This also creates a major impact on the current criminal scenario as well as it has imposed new challenges in the criminal justice system. The present research article is based on the recent case study encountered by the experts in forensic science which will be discuss in detail with their own experiences during presentation. This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. For reprints contact: reprint@ipinnovative.com 1. Introduction Today the world is fully acknowledged by the digital Technology with a constant dependency of staying connected with everything. After the recent exposure of the world with the covid pandemic, a new dimension has emerged in today’s use of digital/ cyber technology and digitalization in all area including home to office work in day-to-day life. Technology has played a significant role in contributing to the societal change. The utilization of technology by people at large on one hand are facilitated, however in other term technology is also providing antisocial elements/criminals a very pleasant platform with new ways of intrusion and frauds like: ATMs, Credit/Debit card forgery, etc. With large use of digital forms, computer and cellular technologies have increased the capacity of data * Corresponding author. E-mail address: reetacbi@gmail.com (R. R. Gupta). storage, rapidly processing information with low latency data sharing and communications within and across the organizations/agencies/state/countries. With advancement of technology on a daily basis a significant impact can be seen in the society. For instance, a new technology is introduced in society and while people are getting adapted with it and it isn’t yet fully spread, another novel technology is further introduced which primarily causes chaos in learning the technology for common man however the criminal/antisocial elements are more rapidly upgrading themselves with latest one and misusing these technologies for their own benefit and thus results in making people vulnerable to Cyber Crime and people are getting affected by cyber fraud. This also creates a major impact on the current criminal Scenario as well as it has imposed new challenges in the criminal justice system. Over the past decade, evidences that identity crimes are increasingly exponentially and cause substantive economic harm. In fact, https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijfmts.2023.013 2581-9844/© 2023 Innovative Publication, All rights reserved. 65