BSS, Dhaka :
The parliamentary standing committee report on Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Bill, 2014 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday with a recommendation to pass it in an amended form.
Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs Rebeka Momin placed the report in the House.
Earlier on June 23 this year, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Begum Meher Afroz introduced the bill in the House with a provision to bring the DNA test process under a legal framework as the country’s existing laws do not have the provision for DNA profiling.
The bill was placed in the House mainly for framing related laws regarding DNA
collection and analysis, DNA profile management, establishing forensic DNA laboratory and a national DNA database for detecting criminals, identifying relations between two or more persons and also decomposed bodies. The bill proposed maximum 10 years’ imprisonment and Taka five lakh as fine for destroying, changing and tainting DNA samples and maximum five years’ jail and Taka three lakh fine for conducting illegal forensic DNA activities.
Besides, it also has a provision of maximum three years’ imprisonment and Taka 50,000 as fine for collecting samples and publishing DNA related information illegally and maximum two years’ jail and Taka 30,000 as fine for unauthorized access to the national DNA database.
The objective of the bill says that the DNA profiling is important for detecting criminals accused of major offences like rape, murder and detecting fatherhood, motherhood and sibling relationship and also identifying decomposed bodies.
The parliamentary standing committee report on Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Bill, 2014 was placed in the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday with a recommendation to pass it in an amended form.
Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs Rebeka Momin placed the report in the House.
Earlier on June 23 this year, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Begum Meher Afroz introduced the bill in the House with a provision to bring the DNA test process under a legal framework as the country’s existing laws do not have the provision for DNA profiling.
The bill was placed in the House mainly for framing related laws regarding DNA
collection and analysis, DNA profile management, establishing forensic DNA laboratory and a national DNA database for detecting criminals, identifying relations between two or more persons and also decomposed bodies. The bill proposed maximum 10 years’ imprisonment and Taka five lakh as fine for destroying, changing and tainting DNA samples and maximum five years’ jail and Taka three lakh fine for conducting illegal forensic DNA activities.
Besides, it also has a provision of maximum three years’ imprisonment and Taka 50,000 as fine for collecting samples and publishing DNA related information illegally and maximum two years’ jail and Taka 30,000 as fine for unauthorized access to the national DNA database.
The objective of the bill says that the DNA profiling is important for detecting criminals accused of major offences like rape, murder and detecting fatherhood, motherhood and sibling relationship and also identifying decomposed bodies.
