On Monday, Lok Sabha passed the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill by voice vote where the Home Minister Amit Shah assured the house that “government will do everything to ensure that there is no misuse of the law”. Home Minister Amit Shah said that this bill will play the role of a defender of human rights of crores of citizens who abide by the law. He said that the move to bring this bill is to improve the rate of conviction in India as to lower the crime rates.
The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 seeks to replace the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. The bill looks to define “measurements” including palm prints, finger prints, footprint impressions, photographs, iris and retina scans, physical and biological samples as well as their analysis. Moreover, the bill seeks to boost the National Crime Records Bureau of India to gather, store and preserve the measurement records for sharing, dissemination, destruction as well as disposal. With this, the crime investigation will become more efficient and will help to increase the rate of conviction.
