Overview
- A division bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia issued notice to the Union law and home ministries, the NCRB, the Delhi Police and the Delhi government.
- The petition, filed by Jamia students Sahibe Alam and Saurabh Tripathi, says police took their photographs and fingerprints in April 2025 after a peaceful campus protest, with Tripathi booked and Alam not charged.
- The students seek deletion and destruction of their data and a declaration that the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022, and its Rules are unconstitutional under Articles 14, 20(3) and 21.
- The plea cites provisions enabling collection of physical and biological samples including possible DNA and behavioural attributes, centralized storage by the NCRB for up to 75 years, and cross-database sharing.
- It also argues the law provides no prescribed procedure for destruction of records and no automatic deletion after acquittal, and the High Court will hear the case alongside a similar 2022 challenge on March 19.