Amit Shah, the Union Home Minister, will propose "The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022" in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Digital Desk: This is all you need to know about the Criminal procedure (identification) bill; this bill intends to give police the authority to take measures of convicts and other people to identify them and conduct criminal investigations to preserve records. The Criminal procedure bill allows police to collect "fingerprints, palmprints, footprint impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples and their analysis, behavioural attributes, including signatures, handwriting, or any other examination" as defined in sections 53 and 53A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. According to Bill's requirements, any person convicted, imprisoned, or detained under any preventive detention statute will be forced to produce "measurements" to a police officer or a prison official. The existing 'Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920' will be repealed under the bill. This Act only allows for taking finger and footprint imprints and photographs on the order of a Magistrate for the selected minority of convicted and non-convicted people. The second half of Parliament's Budget session began on March 14 and will end on April 8. The first half of the Budget session began on January 31 and ended on February 11, with the second half beginning on January 31 and ending on February 11. Also Read: Pramod Sawant takes oath as Goa Chief Minister for 2nd Consecutive termContinue Reading
