Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India
About Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan
- Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan (15 April 1934 – 11 July 2017) was 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, Chandra Sekharan 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 was married to Evelyn and the couple had a daughter, Meena.Chandra Sekharan died on 11 July 2017, following a brief illness.
Read more at Wikipedia