Now, fingerprint experts want your Aadhaar details

Parveen Arora

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Tribune News Service

Karnal, April 4

The Union Home Ministry will be urged to amend the Aadhaar Act by sharing the fingerprint data with fingerprint bureaus to keep a check on first-time offenders and trace unidentified bodies.

As of now, information regarding every person is not shared, due to which the police have to face a hard time, particularly in identification of unidentified bodies.

The ministry will be requested to seed Aadhaar numbers with the criminal attributes database and all examinations reports, which will provide uniqueness to persons throughout the country.

These were a few of the outcomes of the two-day conference of Directors of fingerprint bureaus held at the Haryana Police Academy in Madhuban last week by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

On behalf of the Directors of fingerprint bureaus, the NCRB will soon submit the suggestions to the Union Home Ministry.

As per the authorities, these recommendations will assist cops in solving cases and identifying unidentified bodies.

The NCRB will urge the ministry to fill vacancies in fingerprint bureaus and hold training programmes for better human resource management in this field.

Apart from it, the ministry will also be requested not to deploy fingerprint experts in other duties unless it is absolutely essential.

Dr Ish Kumar, Director, NCRB, said the officials had emphasised adoption of the automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS).

He said parameters should be evolved for data exchange between the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems and the AFIS and exchange of fingerprint data among states. “A committee has been proposed with members from Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha and the NCRB to go into details and submit its report in a month’s time,” he added.

KK Mishra, ADGP and Director, State Crime Record Bureau, Madhuban, said that all states must share the record of convicted and arrested persons with the NCRB for making search more meaningful.

He said the NCRB would explore online acceptance of digital fingerprint data and try to accept fingerprint data online wherever possible.

The NCRB would work towards assessing whether or not digital data could be shared between state fingerprint bureaus and the central fingerprint bureau system, he said. A committee has been proposed to look into the requirement of manpower in state fingerprint bureaus and at district levels, he said.

Apart from it, a cadre for separate fingerprint bureaus would be set up for states like Uttar Pradesh and Punjab which did not have these, he added.