Prof. (Dr.) Tirath Das Dogra, MD, FAMS, FICPath is India’s best-known forensic pathologist and a former Director of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Awarded the country’s first MD in Forensic Medicine (AIIMS, 1976) and later head of the department (1987-2012), he set up AIIMS’s pioneering Medical Toxicology Laboratory (1987) and the institute’s first hospital-based DNA profiling facility (1991), which solved Delhi’s inaugural DNA-evidence criminal case in 1992.Prof. Dogra led the post-mortem of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, deposed in her assassination trial, and has provided expert evidence or crime-scene reconstruction in many of modern India’s most watched investigations—Nithari serial killings, Tandoor murder, Aarushi-Hemraj double homicide, Bilkis Bano case, Gujarat “fake” encounters, Batla House shoot-out and more.A prolific scholar, he has authored/edited 200+ papers and the Indian edition of Lyon’s Medical Jurisprudence, guided over fifty MD/PhD theses, evolved the field technique now known as “Dogra’s Test” for detecting old bullet marks, and introduced 3-D forensic animation to Indian courts.Post-retirement he became founding Vice-Chancellor of SGT University, Haryana, and continues to lecture worldwide on forensic science, medico-legal ethics and criminal psychology.