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PESHAWAR, Sept 20: The Forensic Science Laboratories (FSL) have proposed to the federal government to make fingerprinting for students mandatory at the time of their admission to schools. The government should take fingerprints of foreigners at the time of their entry to Pakistan, officials said, adding that it should also be mandatory for those applying for passports and identity cards as well as the suspects arrested in various crimes.
“This system is established in most of the countries and it is needed here for easy identification,” an expert at the FSL said.
At present, photographs and fingerprints of accused are taken at police stations under the Identification of Prisoner Act, 1904.
There is a need to broaden the range of fingerprinting and for this purpose the act will have to be amended, official sources said.
FSL, helping various law-enforcement agencies in examining and solving cases, is undergoing automation to prepare a computerized record of fingerprints of all suspects and accused. The foreign-funded automation project which started in 2003 would cost Rs3 billion.
In the first phase, the project will be executed in the districts of D.I. Khan, Bannu, Kohat, Peshawar, Mardan, Mansehra, Swat, Dir, Charsadda, Nowshera and Abbottabad, officials said, adding that the work would be completed by December.
The Federal Investigation Agency is supervising the project and so far fingerprints of over 200,000 accused and criminals have been computerized.
RAPIST REFUSED BAIL: The Peshawar district and sessions judge, Shahjehan Khan Akhundzada, on Tuesday dismissed pre-arrest bail petition of a person charged with raping a minor housemaid.
The court pronounced that the accused, Jamil Khan alias Babrak, did not deserve to be extended the concession of pre-arrest bail.
The accused was charged with sexually abusing a minor housemaid working at the residence of his sister here at the University Town.
An FIR was registered against him at police station University Town on April 21 under section 5, 10 and 11 of the Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979. His sister Wagma, wife Gul Lakhta and brother-in-law Imran Durrani were also charged in the case.
The two females were granted pre-arrest bail whereas Imran Durrani was granted regular bail by the court earlier.
The present accused, Jamil, had been absconding after the registration of the FIR and finally appeared and filed the instant pre-arrest bail petition before the court.
The victim, aged 14, served as housemaid at the residence of Ms Wagma. She was taken to Islamabad by the family when they went there to attend a marriage ceremony, where the incident allegedly occurred.
