Centre to introduce Bill to expand the collection of biological samples of arrested persons, convicts
The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 which is aimed at authorizing the police for taking measurements of convicts and other persons for the purposes of identification and investigation in criminal matters and to preserve records will be tabled today by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
As per the provisions of the Bill, any person convicted, arrested, or detained under any preventive detention law will be required to provide “measurements” to a police officer or a prison official.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to table the Bill. The proposed law seeks to repeal the Identification of Prisoners Act, of 1920.
In the existing law, it is limited to allow for the taking of finger and footprint impressions and for a limited category of convicted and non-convicted persons and photographs on the order of a Magistrate.
The Bill proposes to allow police to collect finger impressions, palm prints impressions, footprint impressions, photographs, iris and retina scans, physical and biological samples, their analysis, behavioural attributes including signatures, handwriting, etc.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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