Research Interests

His research area of interest includes forensic science, forensic chemistry & toxicology, crime scene management, criminalistics, fingerprints, questioned documents and separation science.

Dr. Girraj Sharma

Lecturer

Bachelor of Science (Jiwaji University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India) Master of Forensic Science, Ph.D. Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University) Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Dr. Girraj Sharma started his career as an assistant professor in the department of forensic science at Government Institute of Forensic Science, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India. He qualified for a National Eligibility Test- Junior Research Fellowship (NET-JRF) in December 2014. He received his Ph.D. degree in forensic science (forensic chemistry and toxicology) from department of criminology and forensic science, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India. He also served as an assistant professor at the department of forensic science, Medi-Caps, University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has also qualified Forensic Aptitude and Caliber Test (FACT Plus) in 2022 in Forensic Chemical Sciences organized by National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Dr. Girraj Sharma also developed e-Contents in forensic science for UG level as “Co-author,” with Educational Multimedia Research Center, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India. He also assisted in the subject mapping of course, preview of programmes and text editing etc.

His doctoral research work was focused on towards the development of a fast, simple, sensitive, and selective liquid chromatography method and to understand the chromatographic behaviour of most used antibiotic like amikacin, amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, and metronidazole in hospital wastewater. Subsequently, in the next step micellar liquid chromatography technique (MLC) was selected to develop and validate a method for detection of antibiotics in hospital wastewater. The developed method was used for qualitative and quantitative analysis of selected antibiotics in wastewater samples collected from various hospitals of Sagar district. The beauty of the present MLC method is a direct injection of the sample in the chromatographic system without pre-treatment of the real samples. Apart from this characteristic feature it is sensitive, selective and is robust enough to analyse complex biological samples for different analytes. Thus, the developed method can easily be applied by research laboratories, food safety laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, drug testing laboratories, drug motorization centres and forensic science laboratories with greater efficiency and accuracy.

The growing demand of different antibiotics for the treatment of infectious diseases are increasing day by day. Moreover, India is the largest consumer of antibiotics in the world. On the other hand, these antibiotics are reaching the environment by various routes and affecting flora and fauna of the environment because of which environmentalist are working towards novel techniques to detect these pollutants (Emerging Contaminants). Then survey of hospitals of Sagar district was discussed in brief. It was also tried to explain that why there is a need to detect the unmetabolized commonly used antibiotics in hospital wastewater and to develop and validate a sensitive and selective analytical method.

Teaching Experience

He had taught in the following areas of forensic science i.e. forensic science, forensic chemistry and toxicology, fingerprints, questioned documents, crime scene management, instrumental methods of physical and chemical.

Research Experience

He has presented many research papers at national and international conferences. He worked as regular Ph.D. scholar at department of criminology and forensic science, Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India where he has done work in the field of forensic toxicology, forensic environmental toxicology, separation science, fingerprints, criminalistics etc.
He has also granted two patents. He has also guided UG and PG students’ dissertations.

Publications

  1. Rajendra-Prasad Pawar, Girraj Sharma, Abhilasha Durgbanshi, Devashish Bose, Juan Peris-Vicente, Pasqual Roca-Genovés, Samuel Carda-Broch (2023). An easy and green assay to determine albendazole and ivermectin in veterinary preparations by micellar liquid chromatography”, ELECTROPHORESIS. (Impact factor- 3.5)
  2. Girraj Sharma, Pahade, P., Durgbanshi, A., Carda-Broch, S., Peris-Vicente, J., & Bose, D. (2022). Application of micellar liquid chromatographic method for rapid screening of ceftriaxone, metronidazole, amoxicillin, amikacin, and ciprofloxacin in hospital wastewater from Sagar District, India. Total Environment Research Themes, 24 June 2022, 100003.
  3. Girraj Sharma, Pahade, P., Durgbanshi, A., Carda-Broch, S., Peris-Vicente, J., & Bose, D. (2022). Direct injection green chromatographic method for simultaneous quantification of amoxicillin and amikacin in maternity hospital wastewater (Sagar, India). Environmental Pollution 2021 (Barking, Essex: 1987), 296, 118719. (Impact factor- 9.988)
  4. Rajendra Prasad Pawar, Girraj Sharma, and Devashish Bose; Application of Tube Repair Patches for Lifting of Fingerprints and their Preservation by Traso Scan Laboratory Imaging System; Indian Journal of Criminology and Criminalistics; The Indian Journal of Criminology and criminalistics; Volume XXXVI No.1 Jan.-July 2020, ISSN 09704345
  5. Chhote Raja Patle, Girraj Sharma, Devashish Bose; Recent Advancement and Challenges for the Identification of Fingerprint Pattern; Madhya Bharati Journal of Science; 2020, Vol. 62(1): 42-46. ISSN-0972-7434
  6. Girraj Sharma, R.P. Pawar, M. Athar, D. Bose; Use of Geru powder as an Alternative Powder in Powder Dusting Method for Developing the Latent Fingerprints on Various Nonporous-Smooth Surfaces; The Indian Police Journal; Oct.- Dec. 2017; Vol. 64 No. 4: 0537-2429.
  7. P. Mishra, A. Durgbanshi, R.P. Pawar, Girraj Sharma, and P. Biswas; Quality Control of Pyrazinamide in Formulation Using Micellar Liquid Chromatography; International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research; May 2017; Vol. 8 (11): 4637-4644.
Patents
  1. Sharma, G. et. al (2023). QR Code Generation Device for Tagging Crime Scene area using inbuilt Camera (UK patent No. 6279678). https://www.registered-design.service.gov.uk/find/6279678.
  2. Sharma, G. et. al (2024). Smart Crime Scene Investigation Device (Indian patent no- 381304-001) https://search.ipindia.gov.in/DesignApplicationStatus/ .
Projects
A Survey and Preliminary Analysis of Hospital Wastewater Discharged and Commonly used Pharmaceutical Compounds in Hospitals of Malwa region, Madhya Pradesh awarded as seed money project by Medi-Caps University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Development of E-content

Development of e-Content for Undergraduate Level in Forensic Science under the Project of The Consortium for Educational Communication, popularly known as CEC, is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission of India.

Dr. Girraj Sharma has been developed e-Content for UG level as “Co-author,” with Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India. He has been assigned and successfully completed twenty-one topics in forensic science. he has also assisted in the subject mapping of course, preview of programmes and text editing etc.

Note- These e-Content PGMs are available on the CEC, New Delhi Website (https://www.cec.nic.in/cec/curriculum_class#q1)

  1. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Introduction of forensic science; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  2. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Basic principle of forensic science; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  3. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Introduction of forensic science branches; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  4. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Basic set up of State forensic science laboratory in India; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  5. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Basic set up of central forensic science laboratory in India; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  6. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Forensic science in international perspective; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  7. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Interpol; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  8. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Federal bureau of investigation; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  9. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Central bureau of investigation; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  10. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Investigation of crime; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  11. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Scene of crime -1; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  12. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Scene of crime -2; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  13. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Scene of crime -3; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  14. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Scene of crime -4; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  15. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Scene of crime -5; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  16. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Scene of Crime -6 (Biohazard); Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  17. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Scene of Crime -7 (Crime scene reconstruction); Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  18. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Chain of custody; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  19. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Searching of physical evidence; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  20. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Analytical samples; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.
  21. D. Bose and G. Sharma; Sample handling; Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC) Dr. Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University), Sagar, (M.P.), India.