{"id":178716,"date":"2022-04-11T20:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=178716"},"modified":"2022-04-11T20:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T15:26:01","slug":"rethink-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/rethink-the-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethink the Bill\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News:<\/span><\/b> Recently, the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 was passed by Parliament. The act has replaced the Identification of Prisoners Act 1920.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How is the passed bill an intrusive and dangerous piece of legislation?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

It will lead to forcible collection of personal data, including biometric and genetic data. Therefore, it may violate the right to privacy (Article 19).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It violates Article 20 which envisages the right to silence and avoid self-incrimination<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The act enables <\/span>forcible<\/span><\/b> and <\/span>intrusive measures<\/span><\/b> such as scans of the iris and retina. Therefore, it violates the \u201c<\/span>bodily integrity and dignity\u201d <\/span><\/b>envisaged in <\/span>Article 21.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It may lead to violation of the basic structure of the Constitution laid down in <\/span>Kesavananda Bharati vs Union of India<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The term \u201cmeasurement\u201d in the passed bill has been vaguely defined.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It allows any police officer of the rank of head constable and above to take the measurements. They have discretionary power to collect data. Further, In case of refusals to allow collection of data, it could amount to interference in the execution of duty by a public official.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is applicable to <\/span>criminal undertrials<\/span><\/b> including those accused of minor offences, and the<\/span> preventive detention<\/span><\/b> (often applied to political detainees and civil rights activists).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The definition of purpose for which collected data will be used has been vaguely defined in the bill i.e., the purpose is for <\/span>\u201cinvestigation and prosecution of crime<\/span><\/b>. It violates the concept of <\/span>\u201cpurpose limitation\u201d<\/span><\/b>. Therefore, it is prone to misuse.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The draft was not published for <\/span>public comments<\/span><\/b> and <\/span>feedback<\/span><\/b>. It was not reviewed by a <\/span>Standing Parliamentary Committee<\/span><\/b>. The Bill was passed without <\/span>consultation<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are <\/span>no safeguards<\/span><\/b> to limit the scope of this Act. Reasons include: (1) <\/span>The personal data protection law<\/span><\/b> and (2) <\/span>The DNA\u202fTechnology Regulation Bill <\/span><\/b>(To govern the collection, use and storage of DNA) has not been enacted in India so far.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ways Forward<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The amendment should be made to limit use of <\/span>personal data<\/span><\/b> only for a defined, and specific purpose.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>President<\/span><\/b> can return it to reflect associated issues with the govt or the act can be challenged in the Supreme Court.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/span><\/b>: The post is based on an article \u201cRethink the bill<\/strong>\u201d published in the Business Standard<\/strong> on 10<\/strong><\/span>th<\/strong> April 2022<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Recently, the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 was passed by Parliament. The act has replaced the Identification of Prisoners Act 1920.\u00a0\u00a0 How is the passed bill an intrusive and dangerous piece of legislation?\u00a0\u00a0 It will lead to forcible collection of personal data, including biometric and genetic data. Therefore, it may violate the right to… Continue reading Rethink the Bill\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":[10503,212],"class_list":["post-178716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704599495},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178716","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=178716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}