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India’s transgression probe strategy functioned for decades nether the colonial-era Identification of Prisoners Act of 1920, which placed limitations connected technological grounds collection, but the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 has importantly modernised the forensic framework, Prof. Devinder Singh, Vice-Chancellor of Sonipat-based Dr. B.R. Ambedkar National Law University (DBRANLU) said.
Prof. Singh made the remarks portion presenting a insubstantial astatine the 24th Triennial Meeting of the International Association of Forensic Sciences (IAFS-2026) successful Sofia, Bulgaria.
In his paper, helium said the 1920 instrumentality had constrained forensic modernisation successful India.
The 2022 legislation, helium noted, broadened the scope of transgression probe by allowing the postulation of precocious biometric and forensic evidence, including iris and retina scans, DNA-based biologic samples, specimen signatures, handwriting samples and dependable recordings.
According to Prof. Singh, these changes person brought India’s investigative practices person to internationally accepted technological standards. He besides stressed the request for nationalist forensic standardisation protocols, unafraid integer infrastructure and technology-driven justness systems portion ensuring law safeguards and extortion of idiosyncratic rights.
The conference, being held from May 25 to 30, brought unneurotic forensic experts, ineligible scholars and investigators from crossed the world.
