LOKNITI FOUNDATION Vs. U.O.I.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Learned Counsel for the Petitioner has drawn our attention to certain assertions made in the writ petition contained in paragraph 17(iv) to 17(vi), which reads as under:

(2.) Be is stated here, the learned Counsel for the Petitioner has restricted his prayer for creation of data bank as regards DNA only in respect of unidentified dead bodies and missing persons who are subsequently found dead on the foundation of individual dignity.

(3.) Learned Counsel for the Petitioner would submit that establishment of identity is an essential feature in individual dignity which can never be compromised. With the advent of modern scientific method, it is obligatory on the part of the State to avail requisite infrastructure so that a DNA data bank is created, especially in respect of two categories which find mention herein before.