What is the mandate of NCRB? Subject: Polity Section: National organisation Context: Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 empowers NCRB to collect, store and preserve the record of measurements and for sharing, dissemination, destruction and disposal of records; Concept: History: NCRB was set-up in 1986 to function as a repository of information on crime […]

    Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022 Subject: Polity Section: Constitution Context: The government introduced the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 in Lok Sabha on Monday Features of the Bill Define “measurements”: To include finger impressions, palm-print and foot-print impressions, photographs, iris and retina scan, physical, biological samples and their analysis, etc.; Empower the National Crime […]