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Some factors like the increasing threat, unlawful behaviour and illicit activities utilizing energetic explosive materials for felonious & criminal and terrorism activities have praised the need for a reliable, rapid techniques but also an authentic investigation technique for analyzing pivotal puzzles found at the crime scene is required. Examination of explosive residues become more tedious since the residues of origin explosive material from post-blast samples are usually trapped and fused into surrounding. Application of DART-MS. method is suitable for untreated samples or even complete objects can be examined in the open environment without affecting sample quality therefore it is useful to security investigations also. This technique has emerged as a viable method for fast, easy, and reliable "ambient ionization" for criminal investigations. In this present paper efforts have been made to highlight its significant utility to analyse different types of explosive residues due to its ability to rapidly obtain a near complete chemical profile of a sample. Review will be an informative reference document to the forensic community.