IFF Briefing Call | Understanding the Draft Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022
Channel: Internet Freedom Foundation
Date: 01/04/2022

The Government has introduced the Draft Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 in the Lok Sabha that undermines privacy. To go deeper into these issues, IFF's Of-Counsels, Vrinda Bhandari and Abhinav Sekhri will present an analysis that will be livestreamed. 

Under the Draft Bill, the police is empowered to collect a mammoth amount of biometric data, including fingerprints, photographs, palm-prints, foot-prints, “biological samples”, iris and retina scans, signatures, and handwriting samples.

If this proposal becomes law, it is applicable to anyone who may be arrested in connection with any law, or even detained under any preventive detention law. This will include minor and petty arrests, such as for traffic infringements or lockdown violations for example. This will also include instances where citizens are detained at protests. This record will stay with the government for 75 years.

In the briefing, we will analyse this proposed law in detail, discuss the issues that will arise from it, and also analyse the earlier law that this Bill seeks to replace. The briefing will be conducted by Abhinav Sekhri and Vrinda Bhandari, IFF Of-Counsels & subject-matter experts, and will be moderated by Tanmay Singh, IFF's Litigation Counsel.

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