Vol. 7, Issue 3 (2019)

At cold areas where there are heavy snow fall, mass number of people are covered by avalanche and are needed for individualization. Sometimes it is also important in cases where criminals often hide their weapons inside the ice or snow, and these evidences or weapons may often contain the fingerprint of the victim or the culprit. As for this we need to develop fingerprint for the identification and individualization of the culprit or the victim.Thus, this present study has been conducted to give an overview of the current fingerprints methods available to assimilate the outcome of the visualisation of the latent fingerprint and to find out the best method suitable for the development of latent fingerprint on non porous surfaces (aluminium and plastic) at different low temperature (-5 ⁰C,-1 ⁰C, 0 ⁰C, 1 ⁰C, 5 ⁰C). 80 samples were taken, out of which 16 samples (8 for aluminium, 8 for plastic) were taken for each different temperature which was developed with both physical and chemical method for the development of latent print. The method used includes Black powder, Red and Green magnetic fluorescence powder, Iodine fuming method, Ninhydrin method, Cyanoacyrlate method, Silver nitrate method and Small particle reagent method. Despite of the different low temperature, the result obtained for development of fingerprint is same for all temperature and no variable result is shown for different temperatures. The best methods was given by Iodine fuming, Cyanoacyrlate and SPR for aluminum and for plastic the best result was given by black powder and and SPR.