Swarajya's video: What Is Criminal Procedure Identification Bill 2022 Swarajya Explains In 60 Seconds

The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 was tabled in the Lok Sabha Monday by the Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra. The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 is aimed at authorising the police for taking measurements of convicts and other persons for the purposes of identification and investigation in criminal matters and to preserve records. The new Bill will repeal the existing 'The Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920'. The Bill allows police to collect "finger-impressions, palm-print impressions, footprint impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples and their analysis, behavioural attributes including signatures, handwriting or any other examination" referred to in section 53 or section 53A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. It empowers a Magistrate to direct any person to give measurements and also empowers the police or prison officer to take measurements of any person who resists or refuses to give measurements. Police personnel up to the rank of Head Constable have been authorised to record the measurements. It also enables the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to share the records with any other law enforcement agency. The present law only allows for the taking of finger and footprint impressions and for a limited category of convicted and non-convicted person's photographs on the order of a Magistrate. Subscribe to Swarajya on YouTube. Get a Swarajya subscription: https://subscriptions.swarajyamag.com/join-us Website: https://swarajyamag.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swarajyamag