DNA Profiling

With the increase in science and technology everything seems to be possible now. DNA profiling
is a very important aspect where all the genetic information of individual is with the government.
Absence of proper law not only is threat to individual’s privacy but it is also a hinderance to society
welfare. As it can be used in criminal investigation and disaster victim identification.

Privacy concerns and worries about the handling of information gathered from consumers
by mobile apps, websites, and online resources have been very much in the news, of late.
But with the holiday season upon us – and with many people having excess time on their
hands and/or memorable festive gifts to shop for – there’s an unusual new avenue which
potentially poses additional threats to our personal data.

The Ministry of Law & Justice is giving final touches to a draft Bill on
DNA technology, which is aimed at creating DNA data banks both at the
national and state level to store profiles and those who leak the
information stored in such facilities will be punished with a jail term of
up to three years.
It mentions that the DNA data, including DNA profiles, DNA samples
and records, will be used only for identification of the person and not for
“any other purpose”.
Sources in the ministry, while sharing details of the proposed legislation,
said, the draft Bill was being prepared on the basis of a law commission
report that was submitted recently.
It says national and regional DNA data banks will be set up for
maintaining a national database for identification of victims, accused,
suspects, undertrials, missing persons and unidentified human remains.
The Department of Biotechnology was also consulted by the law panel
before finalising its report. “The Law Ministry is now finalising the
official draft before it goes to the Union Cabinet for final approval,” a
senior official said. The proposed law has a provision that those who leak
the DNA profile information to people or entities not entitled to have it
“will be punished with a jail term of up to three years and a fine of up to
Rs 1 lakh”, he said.
Similar punishment is also prescribed for those who seek information on
DNA profiles illegally. The government had recently informed the
Supreme Court that a Bill for DNA profiling to enable maintenance of
records of unidentified and unclaimed dead bodies or missing persons
was likely to be brought in the forthcoming session of Parliament.

The draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018 resembles the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) and comes with ambiguities and has its own pain points, said a joint study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and
Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India.

The draft Bill submitted to the Centre by the Justice BN Srikrishna committee in July seeks to create a
comprehensive framework for data protection. It suggests companies to adopt certain practices to collect, p ..

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DNA test or ‘DNA Profiling’ as popularly known is a technique in which a sample

of DNA is run through a laboratory assay to generate information about it, looking
specifically for DNA which could identify the source of the sample, or be used as a
base of comparison between two samples. This technique is used at various places
for different purposes ranging from law enforcement to Medical Treatment. The
technology of DNA Test was first reported in the year 1984 by Sir Alec Jeffrey at
the University of Leicester in England. Soon after this incident, it became one of
the most important technologies to be used in the Forensic Science. In the
publications in 1985 by Jeffer

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Paternity test through DNA testing

Disaster victim identification

Criminal investigation