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News<\/span><\/b>: Recently, the government has introduced the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill in the Lok Sabha. It seeks to replace the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 which regulates how the police can gather data from convicted or suspected criminals. <\/span><\/p>\n The bill has generated a lot of controversy<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n –<\/strong> Read here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span> It expands the type of data collected by the police from basic fingerprint and footprint impressions to a range of other samples, including iris and retina scans, behavioural attributes, and \u201cbiological samples\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It mandates the National Crime Records Bureau to collect that data and keep it for 75 years.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Read here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The government has asserted that the <\/span>present prisoner identification law <\/span><\/b>is a century old law. It is inadequate for the present day. The technological and scientific advancements have transformed crime and law enforcement since 1920.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It will give the police free hand to collect personal data of anyone, say, detained protestors. It can be used against them at a later date. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The national data protection legislation has not been enacted for years. For example, <\/span>the Justice Srikrishna Commission (2018) <\/span><\/b>released its report in 2018. The <\/span>first Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB)<\/span><\/b> that was drafted based on it has a number of weaknesses. It allowed the Centre to exempt any of its agencies from the provisions supposed to protect privacy in the name of security. The proposed <\/span>\u201cData Protection Authority\u201d <\/span><\/b>could not act as an independent regulator\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Read here<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span> The Parliament may refer the Bill to a standing committee. Efforts should be made to increase the accountability framework in the Bill.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n India already has the Crime and Criminal Tracking Networks and System (CCTNS) which has played a significant role in modernising Indian policing. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201cCriminal procedure bill will not make Indians safer<\/strong>\u201d published in the Indian Express<\/strong> on 5<\/strong><\/span>th<\/strong> Apr 22<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News: Recently, the government has introduced the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill in the Lok Sabha. It seeks to replace the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 which regulates how the police can gather data from convicted or suspected criminals. The bill has generated a lot of controversy. What are the issues with the bill?\u00a0 – Read… Continue reading Criminal Procedure bill will not make Indians safer\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-177735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704780835},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are the issues with the bill?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\nWhat has been proposed in the bill?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
What is the rationale behind the bill?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
What are the issues in particular which make this bill disturbing?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\nWay Forward<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n