The Evening Wrap: Criminal Procedure amendment Bill tabled in LS amid protests

The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 that would allow the police and prison authorities to collect, store and analyse physical and biological samples, including retina and iris scans, was introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday amid strong protests from Opposition members, who forced a vote on the issue and termed the Bill ‘unconstitutional’. The Bill also seeks to apply these provisions to persons held under any preventive detention law. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will be the repository of physical and biological samples, signature and handwriting data that can be preserved for at least 75 years. Opposition members argued that the Bill was beyond the legislative competence of Parliament as it violated fundamental rights of citizens including the right to privacy. BSP member Ritesh Pandey pointed out that the Bill proposes to collect samples even from protestors engaged in political protests. The Bill could be introduced by Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ only after a division of votes in which 120 members voted in favour of the introducing it while 58 members voted against. The government was taken by surprise when the Opposition demanded a division of votes as not only were senior ministers like Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari absent from the House but even Treasury Benches were not full. While the Bill was being moved by Mishra, whose son is accused of running over farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) last year, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chwodhury interrupted him. The Minister responded by saying that he would quit politics if there was even one single criminal case against him. Congress member Manish Tewari argued that the Bill, which implied use of force in collection of biological information, could also lead to narco analysis and brain mapping, and claimed that it violates Article 20 (3) of the Constitution as well as the Supreme Court judgement in the K.S. Puttaswamy case. RSP member N.K. Premachandran, Trinamool member Saugata Roy, Chowdhury and Pandey also opposed the introduction of the Bill. Premachandran argued that the Bill violates human rights provisions as laid out in the United Nations charter. Dismissing the apprehensions, the Minister said Bill was required to make provisions for the use of modern techniques to capture and record appropriate body measurements. He pointed out that the existing law — the Identification of Prisoners Act — dated back to 1920 and allowed taking only finger print and foot print impressions of a limited category of convicted persons. The Bill seeks to repeal The Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 whose scope was limited to taking recording finger impressions and foot-print impressions of limited category of convicted and non-convicted persons and photographs on the order of a Magistrate. The Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill said that new ‘‘measurement’’ techniques being used in advanced countries are giving credible and reliable results and are recognised world over. “The Act (Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920) does not provide for taking these body measurements as many of the techniques and technologies had not been developed at that point of time. It is, therefore, essential to make provisions for modern techniques to capture and record appropriate body measurements in place of existing limited measurements,” it said. The Bill seeks to expand the “ambit of persons” whose measurements can be taken as this will help the investigating agencies to gather sufficient legally admissible evidence and establish the crime of the accused person. “Therefore, there is a need for expanding the scope and ambit of the “measurements” which can be taken under the provisions of law as it will help in unique identification of a person involved in any crime and will assist the investigating agencies in solving the criminal case,” it says. The bill provides legal sanction for taking appropriate body measurements of persons who are required to give such measurements. The Bill seeks to define “measurements” to include finger-impressions, palm-print and foot-print impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples and their analysis and empowers the NCRB to collect, store and preserve the record of measurements and for sharing, dissemination, destruction and disposal of records. 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. “Resistance to or refusal to allow the taking of measurements under this Act shall be deemed to be an offence under section 186 of the Indian Penal Code,” the bill states. “Provided that where any person, who has not been previously convicted of an offence punishable under any law with imprisonment for any term, has had his measurements taken according to the provisions of this Act, is released without trial or discharged or acquitted by the court, after exhausting all legal remedies, all records of measurements so taken shall, unless the court or Magistrate, for reasons to be recorded in writing otherwise directs, be destroyed from records,” the bill states. PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif tables no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan in Pak Parliament A no-confidence motion against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was tabled on Monday in the National Assembly by Leader of the Opposition and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, setting in motion the process in the lower house to remove the embattled cricketer-turned-politician from office. As the much-anticipated session began after a two-day recess on Monday, Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri asked the members of the Parliament, who are in favour of the motion, to stand up to that their numbers could be counted. Sharif first moved a resolution to allow tabling of the no-confidence motion in the National Assembly, the lower house of bi-cameral parliament, which was approved by 161 yes votes. It was followed by tabling of the no-confidence motion by Sharif, capping the first phase of the constitutional procedure. Since the voting should be held between 3-7 days, Deputy Speaker Suri who was chairing the session in the absence of Speaker Asad Qaidar, prorogued the session until 4 pm March 31, when it would reconvene for debate and voting. Prime Minister Imran Khan needs 172 votes in the house of 342 to foil the bid. Since Khan’s allies with 23 members are still not committed to support him and about two dozen lawmakers from within the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf have revolted, the situation was still fluid. Khan was meeting Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, a key ally, while opposition was scheduled to hold a massive rally in the capital, as both sides claim to have the numbers to succeed. The country plunged into uncertainty on March 8 after the combined opposition submitted the motion with the National Assembly along with a requisition to the speaker to summon the session within mandatory 14 days. Though the session was called on March 25, three days after the deadline, the speaker refused to allow the motion to be tabled. Talking to media, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said that the no-confidence resolution would be decided by March 31, adding that Prime Minister Khan was not going anywhere. “People must shun the idea that Imran’s politics is teetering on the brink, especially after his great rally in Islamabad a day ago,” he said, and termed the move as “a conspiracy to weaken Pakistan”. Rashid repeated what Khan said on Sunday while addressing a rally in Islamabad that an international conspiracy was afoot to topple his government. However, in response to a question Rashid said he has no idea about the letter that Khan had referred to in his speech. In a massive show of strength ahead of the crucial no-confidence motion against his government, Khan on Sunday addressed a mammoth rally in the national capital where he claimed that foreign powers were involved in a conspiracy to topple his coalition government. Addressing the rally of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) titled ‘Amr Bil Maroof’ (enjoin the good) and billed as a “historic” event at Parade Ground in Islamabad, Prime Minister Khan said foreign elements are using local politicians and money to “mend the country’s foreign policy” and asserted that he has a letter as ‘evidence’ to support his claims. Rashid also said that the Prime Minister had rejected his proposal to call snap elections, dissolve the Punjab Assembly and impose governor’s rule in Sindh. He also said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had permission of Islamabad’s administration to hold a rally in the capital on Monday. The Opposition parties are confident that they can get the support of 172 members in the house of 342 to dislodge the government, while the government claims that it enjoys the required support in the house to foil the attempt. With major allies of Khan looking the other way and about two dozen PTI members of Parliament revolting against him, and the powerful establishment not providing a helping hand, he is less likely to get the support of the much-coveted 172 lawmakers. Khan, 69, is heading a coalition government and he can be removed if some of the partners decide to switch sides. The PTI has 155 members in the 342-member National Assembly and needs at least 172 lawmakers on its side to remain in the government. Putin-Zelensky talks would be ‘counterproductive’, Moscow says Direct talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be “counterproductive”, the Russian foreign minister said Monday, as delegations prepared for Turkey-hosted talks on Moscow’s military operation. President Putin “has said he has never refused to meet President Zelenskyy. The only thing that he considers fundamentally important is for these meetings to be well prepared”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised comments to journalists, after Zelenskyy called for a meeting with his Russian counterpart. Lavrov said the current crisis has “been brewing so long, all these years, that a huge number of problems have built up, therefore just meeting and exchanging views on what you think and I think, that would just be counterproductive now”. Zelenskyy and Putin have met only once, at talks in Paris in 2019. As the countries are set to resume in-person peace talks in Istanbul, Lavrov said Moscow maintains its demands for demilitarisation and “denazification” in Ukraine. Putin has named these as Moscow’s military goals, as well as for Ukraine to have neutral status. “Both the demilitarisation and the denazification of Ukraine are an essential component of the agreements that we are trying to achieve,” Lavrov said. “We have an interest in these talks ending with a result that will achieve the fundamental aims for us,” the Minister said. He named the primary goal as “ending the killing in the Donbas region that has lasted eight years”, referring to eastern Ukraine. He added that Russia wanted Ukraine to “stop assimilating itself with the West, with NATO, in the military sense”. Ukraine must “stop being a country that is continually being militarised and where they try to deploy offensive weapons threatening Russia”, he said. The Minister also called for an end to “efforts to encourage Nazi ideology and practices”. He said that Ukraine’s armed forces are “permeated by officers from the so-called national volunteer battalions, which publicly preach Nazi ideas”. Lavrov also accused the West of “supporting the extermination of everything Russian in Ukraine”, citing books and television broadcasts. TMC, BJP MLAs come to blows in West Bengal Assembly, five suspended Legislators of the Trinamool Congress and the BJP on March 28 came to blows in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The incident occurred when the BJP MLAs led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari were demanding a discussion in the Assembly on the Rampurhat violence. The BJP MLAs were protesting against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks on Rampurhat violence in public events and not making a statement in the House. A scuffle ensued between the legislators of the Treasury and Opposition Benches when the protesting BJP MLAs assembled near the chair of Speaker Biman Banerjee. First there was a scuffle between security personnel and the BJP legislators but after some time the TMC MLAs joined them. TMC MLA Asit Majumdar suffered a nose injury and was bleeding. He was rushed to the State- run SSKM Hospital. BJP MLA and Chief Whip in the Assembly Manoj Tigga said that his clothes were torn and he was pushed and punched. Adhikari said personnel of the Kolkata Police in plainclothes attacked BJP MLAs after which Trinamool Congress MLAs rose from their seats and joined the attack. Adhikari said that several BJP MLAs had sustained injuries. TMC MLA and Minister Firhad Hakim said that every day the BJP MLAs were indulging in hooliganism. Later in the day, the Speaker described the developments as “unwarranted and unfortunate” and said that “he felt very sad at the developments”. “The way they [BJP legislators] attacked women guards is very unfortunate. It would have been better had the incident not occurred,” the Speaker said. Five BJP MLAs, including Adhikari and Manoj Tigga, were suspended from the Assembly. The three other suspended BJP MLAs are Narahari Mahato, Dipak Barman and Shankar Ghosh. Commenting on the suspension, Adhikari said that everyone in the House was aware of his role and had he not intervened things would have turned worse. The Nandigram MLA said that if he was not allowed to speak in the House, he would continue to raise his voice outside the House. Earlier at the start of the Budget Session of State Assembly, two BJP MLAs (Mihir Goswami and Sudip Mukherjee) were suspended while protesting during Governor’s address. There had been no recent instances in the West Bengal Assembly where the MLAs of Treasury and Opposition had clashed with each other. Almost 10 years ago in December 2012, the legislators of the Trinamool Congress and Left parties had come to blows when the Left MLAs demanded a discussion on the Saradha scam. In brief Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on March 28 said that ration would be provided at the doorsteps of beneficiaries across the State. In a video message, Mann said that after the launch of the doorstep ration delivery scheme people would now no longer need to stand in queues, also it would be ensured that they get quality ration, including food grains or pulses. “Today, I have decided that your government will deliver ration to your home,” he said, adding that several times poor people, especially daily wagers, had to forego their work only to get the ration. “How difficult and sad would that be. But now no one will have to leave their work for getting ration, our officials will deliver ration to the beneficiaries at their doorstep,” he said. Evening Wrap will return tomorrow [logo] The Evening Wrap 28 MARCH 2022 [The Hindu logo] Welcome to the Evening Wrap newsletter, your guide to the day’s biggest stories with concise analysis from The Hindu. [[Arrow]Open in browser]( [[Mail icon]More newsletters]( Criminal Procedure amendment Bill tabled in Lok Sabha amid protests The [Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 that would allow the police and prison]( authorities to collect, store and analyse physical and biological samples, including retina and iris scans, was introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday amid strong protests from Opposition members, who forced a vote on the issue and termed the Bill ‘unconstitutional’. The Bill also seeks to apply these provisions to persons held under any preventive detention law. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will be the repository of physical and biological samples, signature and handwriting data that can be preserved for at least 75 years. Opposition members argued that the Bill was beyond the legislative competence of Parliament as it violated fundamental rights of citizens including the right to privacy. BSP member Ritesh Pandey pointed out that the Bill proposes to collect samples even from protestors engaged in political protests. [A view of the Lok Sabha proceedings during the second part of the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi on March 28, 2022.] The Bill could be introduced by Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’ only after a division of votes in which 120 members voted in favour of the introducing it while 58 members voted against. The government was taken by surprise when the Opposition demanded a division of votes as not only were senior ministers like Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari absent from the House but even Treasury Benches were not full. While the Bill was being moved by Mishra, whose son is accused of running over farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) last year, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chwodhury interrupted him. The Minister responded by saying that he would quit politics if there was even one single criminal case against him. Congress member Manish Tewari argued that the Bill, which implied use of force in collection of biological information, could also lead to narco analysis and brain mapping, and claimed that it violates Article 20 (3) of the Constitution as well as the Supreme Court judgement in the K.S. Puttaswamy case. RSP member N.K. Premachandran, Trinamool member Saugata Roy, Chowdhury and Pandey also opposed the introduction of the Bill. Premachandran argued that the Bill violates human rights provisions as laid out in the United Nations charter. Dismissing the apprehensions, the Minister said Bill was required to make provisions for the use of modern techniques to capture and record appropriate body measurements. He pointed out that the existing law — the Identification of Prisoners Act — dated back to 1920 and allowed taking only finger print and foot print impressions of a limited category of convicted persons. The Bill seeks to repeal The Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920 whose scope was limited to taking recording finger impressions and foot-print impressions of limited category of convicted and non-convicted persons and photographs on the order of a Magistrate. The Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill said that new ‘‘measurement’’ techniques being used in advanced countries are giving credible and reliable results and are recognised world over. “The Act (Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920) does not provide for taking these body measurements as many of the techniques and technologies had not been developed at that point of time. It is, therefore, essential to make provisions for modern techniques to capture and record appropriate body measurements in place of existing limited measurements,” it said. The Bill seeks to expand the “ambit of persons” whose measurements can be taken as this will help the investigating agencies to gather sufficient legally admissible evidence and establish the crime of the accused person. “Therefore, there is a need for expanding the scope and ambit of the “measurements” which can be taken under the provisions of law as it will help in unique identification of a person involved in any crime and will assist the investigating agencies in solving the criminal case,” it says. The bill provides legal sanction for taking appropriate body measurements of persons who are required to give such measurements. The Bill seeks to define “measurements” to include finger-impressions, palm-print and foot-print impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples and their analysis and empowers the NCRB to collect, store and preserve the record of measurements and for sharing, dissemination, destruction and disposal of records. 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. “Resistance to or refusal to allow the taking of measurements under this Act shall be deemed to be an offence under section 186 of the Indian Penal Code,” the bill states. “Provided that where any person, who has not been previously convicted of an offence punishable under any law with imprisonment for any term, has had his measurements taken according to the provisions of this Act, is released without trial or discharged or acquitted by the court, after exhausting all legal remedies, all records of measurements so taken shall, unless the court or Magistrate, for reasons to be recorded in writing otherwise directs, be destroyed from records,” the bill states. PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif tables no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan in Pak Parliament A no-confidence motion against [Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was tabled on Monday]( in the National Assembly by Leader of the Opposition and PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif, setting in motion the process in the lower house to remove the embattled cricketer-turned-politician from office. As the much-anticipated session began after a two-day recess on Monday, Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri asked the members of the Parliament, who are in favour of the motion, to stand up to that their numbers could be counted. Sharif first moved a resolution to allow tabling of the no-confidence motion in the National Assembly, the lower house of bi-cameral parliament, which was approved by 161 yes votes. It was followed by tabling of the no-confidence motion by Sharif, capping the first phase of the constitutional procedure. Since the voting should be held between 3-7 days, Deputy Speaker Suri who was chairing the session in the absence of Speaker Asad Qaidar, prorogued the session until 4 pm March 31, when it would reconvene for debate and voting. Prime Minister Imran Khan needs 172 votes in the house of 342 to foil the bid. Since Khan’s allies with 23 members are still not committed to support him and about two dozen lawmakers from within the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf have revolted, the situation was still fluid. Khan was meeting Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, a key ally, while opposition was scheduled to hold a massive rally in the capital, as both sides claim to have the numbers to succeed. The country plunged into uncertainty on March 8 after the combined opposition submitted the motion with the National Assembly along with a requisition to the speaker to summon the session within mandatory 14 days. Though the session was called on March 25, three days after the deadline, the speaker refused to allow the motion to be tabled. Talking to media, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said that the no-confidence resolution would be decided by March 31, adding that Prime Minister Khan was not going anywhere. “People must shun the idea that Imran’s politics is teetering on the brink, especially after his great rally in Islamabad a day ago,” he said, and termed the move as “a conspiracy to weaken Pakistan”. Rashid repeated what Khan said on Sunday while addressing a rally in Islamabad that an international conspiracy was afoot to topple his government. However, in response to a question Rashid said he has no idea about the letter that Khan had referred to in his speech. In a massive show of strength ahead of the crucial no-confidence motion against his government, Khan on Sunday addressed a mammoth rally in the national capital where he claimed that foreign powers were involved in a conspiracy to topple his coalition government. Addressing the rally of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) titled ‘Amr Bil Maroof’ (enjoin the good) and billed as a “historic” event at Parade Ground in Islamabad, Prime Minister Khan said foreign elements are using local politicians and money to “mend the country’s foreign policy” and asserted that he has a letter as ‘evidence’ to support his claims. Rashid also said that the Prime Minister had rejected his proposal to call snap elections, dissolve the Punjab Assembly and impose governor’s rule in Sindh. He also said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had permission of Islamabad’s administration to hold a rally in the capital on Monday. The Opposition parties are confident that they can get the support of 172 members in the house of 342 to dislodge the government, while the government claims that it enjoys the required support in the house to foil the attempt. With major allies of Khan looking the other way and about two dozen PTI members of Parliament revolting against him, and the powerful establishment not providing a helping hand, he is less likely to get the support of the much-coveted 172 lawmakers. Khan, 69, is heading a coalition government and he can be removed if some of the partners decide to switch sides. The PTI has 155 members in the 342-member National Assembly and needs at least 172 lawmakers on its side to remain in the government. Putin-Zelensky talks would be ‘counterproductive’, Moscow says Direct talks between [Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy]( would be “counterproductive”, the Russian foreign minister said Monday, as delegations prepared for Turkey-hosted talks on Moscow’s military operation. President Putin “has said he has never refused to meet President Zelenskyy. The only thing that he considers fundamentally important is for these meetings to be well prepared”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised comments to journalists, after Zelenskyy called for a meeting with his Russian counterpart. [A man with his face painted with colours of the national flags of Russia and Ukraine, hold portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy requesting them to stop the war.] Lavrov said the current crisis has “been brewing so long, all these years, that a huge number of problems have built up, therefore just meeting and exchanging views on what you think and I think, that would just be counterproductive now”. Zelenskyy and Putin have met only once, at talks in Paris in 2019. As the countries are set to resume in-person peace talks in Istanbul, Lavrov said Moscow maintains its demands for demilitarisation and “denazification” in Ukraine. Putin has named these as Moscow’s military goals, as well as for Ukraine to have neutral status. “Both the demilitarisation and the denazification of Ukraine are an essential component of the agreements that we are trying to achieve,” Lavrov said. “We have an interest in these talks ending with a result that will achieve the fundamental aims for us,” the Minister said. He named the primary goal as “ending the killing in the Donbas region that has lasted eight years”, referring to eastern Ukraine. He added that Russia wanted Ukraine to “stop assimilating itself with the West, with NATO, in the military sense”. Ukraine must “stop being a country that is continually being militarised and where they try to deploy offensive weapons threatening Russia”, he said. The Minister also called for an end to “efforts to encourage Nazi ideology and practices”. He said that Ukraine’s armed forces are “permeated by officers from the so-called national volunteer battalions, which publicly preach Nazi ideas”. Lavrov also accused the West of “supporting the extermination of everything Russian in Ukraine”, citing books and television broadcasts. TMC, BJP MLAs come to blows in West Bengal Assembly, five suspended Legislators of the[Trinamool Congress and the BJP on March 28 came to blows]( in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The incident occurred when the BJP MLAs led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari were demanding a discussion in the Assembly on the Rampurhat violence. The BJP MLAs were protesting against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks on Rampurhat violence in public events and not making a statement in the House. A scuffle ensued between the legislators of the Treasury and Opposition Benches when the protesting BJP MLAs assembled near the chair of Speaker Biman Banerjee. First there was a scuffle between security personnel and the BJP legislators but after some time the TMC MLAs joined them. TMC MLA Asit Majumdar suffered a nose injury and was bleeding. He was rushed to the State- run SSKM Hospital. BJP MLA and Chief Whip in the Assembly Manoj Tigga said that his clothes were torn and he was pushed and punched. Adhikari said personnel of the Kolkata Police in plainclothes attacked BJP MLAs after which Trinamool Congress MLAs rose from their seats and joined the attack. Adhikari said that several BJP MLAs had sustained injuries. TMC MLA and Minister Firhad Hakim said that every day the BJP MLAs were indulging in hooliganism. Later in the day, the Speaker described the developments as “unwarranted and unfortunate” and said that “he felt very sad at the developments”. “The way they [BJP legislators] attacked women guards is very unfortunate. It would have been better had the incident not occurred,” the Speaker said. Five BJP MLAs, including Adhikari and Manoj Tigga, were suspended from the Assembly. The three other suspended BJP MLAs are Narahari Mahato, Dipak Barman and Shankar Ghosh. Commenting on the suspension, Adhikari said that everyone in the House was aware of his role and had he not intervened things would have turned worse. The Nandigram MLA said that if he was not allowed to speak in the House, he would continue to raise his voice outside the House. Earlier at the start of the Budget Session of State Assembly, two BJP MLAs (Mihir Goswami and Sudip Mukherjee) were suspended while protesting during Governor’s address. There had been no recent instances in the West Bengal Assembly where the MLAs of Treasury and Opposition had clashed with each other. Almost 10 years ago in December 2012, the legislators of the Trinamool Congress and Left parties had come to blows when the Left MLAs demanded a discussion on the Saradha scam. 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