{"id":89781,"date":"2019-08-03T16:31:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8768"},"modified":"2019-08-03T16:31:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T11:01:48","slug":"giving-voice-sample-to-police-does-not-violate-privacy-rules-top-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/giving-voice-sample-to-police-does-not-violate-privacy-rules-top-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving voice sample to police does not violate privacy, rules top court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Supreme Court has ruled that a judicial magistrate can order an accused to give his voice samples even against his consent in the course of a criminal investigation.<\/li><li>The judgment came on an appeal filed by petitioner against a 2010 order of a magistrate court in Uttar Pradesh allowing police to get his voice sample.<\/li><li>Article 20(3) of the Constitution mandated that no person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself.<\/li><li>However,the court said that giving voice sample by itself did not incriminate a person.Hence,judicial order to give such a sample does not infringe the fundamental rights to privacy or against self-incrimination.<\/li><li>The 87th Report of the Law Commission of India in 1980 describes a voice print as a visual recording of voice.Voiceprints resemble fingerprints as each person has a distinctive voice with characteristic features dictated by vocal cavities and articulates.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has ruled that a judicial magistrate can order an accused to give his voice samples even against his consent in the course of a criminal investigation. The judgment came on an appeal filed by petitioner against a 2010 order of a magistrate court in Uttar Pradesh allowing police to get his voice&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/giving-voice-sample-to-police-does-not-violate-privacy-rules-top-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giving voice sample to police does not violate privacy, rules top court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[7172,72,7173],"class_list":["post-89781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-article-203","tag-supreme-court","tag-voice-sample","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704905230},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89781","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}