Police stopped you in Bengaluru and asked to scan fingerprint?

Karnataka By Bellie Thomas December 21, 2022 Read the article

Zarar Baig, a gym trainer, was on his way back home in Bengaluru on his Royal Enfield Bullet when he was stopped by cops.

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“The cop asked me to put my thumb on the equipment. He physically went through all of the bike’s documents, then let me go.”

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The equipment the cop used is the front-end of what is called the Mobile-Crime and Criminal Tracking Network Systems (M-CCTNS).

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The CCTNS, a project of the NCRB, is a nationwide online tracking system integrating over 14,000 police stations.

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It was approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs in 2009, and allocated a fund of ₹2,000 crore.

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Recently, police in Bengaluru used the CCTNS to nab a murder suspect who had jumped bail 12 years ago.

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Night-beat cops stumbled on a man loitering suspiciously and took him to the police station. The CCTNS device showed his criminal record.

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That the cops use this technology on random people to confirm if someone could be a criminal has not gone down well.

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One netizen took to Twitter to ask whether the practice of taking these thumbprints was legal, and whether there was a new law regarding it.

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Senior criminal advocate Trivikram said: “The scanning of fingerprints of any random individual is unconstitutional.”

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Unless there was a grave suspicion about someone, scanning their fingerprint would be in violation of the individual’s fundamental rights, he asserted.

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