The Criminal Procedure Identification Bill 2022

What is Criminal Procedure Identification Bill ?

The Criminal Procedure Identification Bill 2022 will repeal the existing "The Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920", which is limited to allowing collection of finger and footprint impressions and photographs for a limited category of convicted and non-convicted persons on the order of a Magistrate.

What powers does Criminal Procedure Identification Bill 2022 give to police?

-The Criminal Procedure Identification Bill 2022 aims to authorise the police to take measurements of convicts and other persons for the purposes of their identifications and investigations in criminal matters to preserve records.

-The new Criminal Procedure Identification Bill 2022 will allow police or prison officials to collect measurements of all those who are detained under various charges or even those under preventive detention.

-It will somewhere give the police to take physical and biological samples of all detainees.

- The bill will allow the police to take iris and retina scan, photographs, finger-impressions, palm-print impressions, footprint impressions, physical, biological samples and their analysis.

-The bill will also allow the police to collect their behavioural attributes including signatures and handwriting or any other examination referred under section 53 or section 53A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.