Truth serum is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in an effort to obtain information from subjects. Subjects questioned under the influence of such substances have been found to be suggestible and their memories subject to reconstruction and fabrication. Reliability and suggestibility of patients are concerns.
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Truth serum is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in an effort to obtain information from subjects. Subjects questioned under the influence of such substances have been found to be suggestible and their memories subject to reconstruction and fabrication. There is currently no drug proven to cause consistent or predictable enhancement of truth-telling. Reliability and suggestibility of patients are concerns, and the practice of chemically inducing an involuntary mental state is now widely considered to be a form of torture. India’s Central Bureau of Investigation has used intravenous barbiturates for interrogation, often in high-profile cases. One such case was the interrogation of Ajmal Kasab, the only terrorist captured alive by police in the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India. In the United States, it has been suggested that their use is a potential violation of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
In Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh High Court permitted narcoanalysis in the investigation of a killing of a mother of three tiger cubs. A Special Task Force requested the testing of four persons, one of whom refused to consent on grounds of potential post-test complications. A defector from the biological weapons Department of the KGB claimed SP-117 was highly effective and has been widely used. According to him, the serum had no immediate side effects and had no recollection of having ‘heart-to-heart’ with the person who gave it to him. The person had’remedyed, which loosens the tongue’ has no color, no taste, no smell, no immediate taste, and no immediate recollection of the person having given the serum to him to talk to him ‘to talk-to him-to talk about his heart- to-heart- to talk about how he felt about the death of his mother’ The test was conducted on Krishna, a key witness in the Aarushi-Hemraj Murder Case.
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