The Centre has told the Supreme Court that a bill for DNA profiling to enable maintenance of records of unidentified and unclaimed bodies or missing persons is likely to be brought in the upcoming session of Parliament.
A bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, considered the statement made by Additional Solicitor General Pinky Anand, appearing for the Centre, saying that the government should take steps as expeditiously as possible.
The court was hearing a PIL filed by an NGO which said that India does not have a national DNA database to address the issue of thousands of unclaimed bodies that are reported annually. It suggested maintaining of DNA profiles of the bodies before their disposal which could help in their identification by the family members.
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