New Delhi: According to another big news, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will present the Criminal Procedure Bill-2022 in Parliament today i.e. on Monday 28 March. Explain that the goal of this bill is to allow the police for the time being, that they can keep records of the identity of the culprits and other persons in criminal cases. Also, as soon as this bill is passed in the Lok Sabha, the Identification of Prisoners Act 1920, related to the functioning of the police, will also be abolished.
Not only this, this new bill will repeal the existing “Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920”. It is to be noted that the Bill allows the police to “fingerprints, palm prints, footprints, photographs, iris and retina scans, physical, biological samples and their analysis, behavioral characteristics including signatures, handwriting or any other examination”.
But in the existing law, it is limited to taking finger and footprint impressions on the orders of a magistrate and allowing for a limited range of convicted and non-convicted persons and photographs.
With this, now as per the provisions of this Bill, any person convicted, arrested or detained under any preventive detention law will be required to provide “measurement or identification” to a police officer or prison officer.
