The government on Monday introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to provide legal sanction to the police to take physical and biological samples of convicts as well as persons accused of crimes, amid uproar by the opposition.
The Bill proposes to allow police to collect physical and biological samples of arrested persons. It impinges on freedom to live a life of dignity, say leaders.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday hit out at the Centre government and said if the government claim to be pro-farmers then they should put forth the case strongly so that the accused is not able to get the bail.
Over four months after he was arrested on charges of killing four farmers by running them over with his vehicle at Lakhimpur Kheri, Union Minister of State Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra was on Tuesday released from jail. Though Mishra, who was the main accused in the killing of the farmers, had been granted bail on Thursday by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court,