Occupation Forensic expert Awards Padma Bhushan | Books The First Human Bomb | |
Born April 15, 1934 (age 82) ( 1934-04-15 ) Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India Known for Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi | ||
Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan (born 1934) is an Indian forensic expert, writer and a former director of the Department of Forensics Sciences of the Government of Tamil Nadu. He was best known for his contributions in the investigations in the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination case.
Born on 15 April 1934 at Nagapattinam, a coastal town in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Shekharan secured his graduate and post-graduate degrees from Annamalai University and did doctoral research to obtain a PhD in forensic science from the University of Madras in 1986. He is the president of the Forensics International and has published several articles on the subject of forensics, including Studies on certain forensic aspects of skull identification and individualization, and Forensic science--as is what is and a monograph, Lip forensics : forensic cheiloscopy for crime investigation and criminal identification : labial structure for personal appearance identification and personal identification. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2000, for his contributions to society. He is married to Evelyn and the couple has a daughter, Meena.