1818. In all criminal proceedings, personal identification plays an important role. Identification through fingerprint science is conclusive and infallible. For this purpose, each State maintains a Fingerprint Bureau where a record of fingerprints of criminals committing certain specific offences is kept.
1819. (a) Recording finger-print slips of convicts;
(b) Searching of fingerprint slips, referred to it to ascertain antecedents;
(c) Comparisons and opinion on finger-impressions on documents in civil and criminal cases received from courts and other agencies;
(d) Comparison of latent prints and giving opinions, when required;
(e) Single digit recording and searches;
(f) Action on absconder’s reports;
(g) Evidence in court;
(h) Elimination work;
(i) Research work; and
(j) Training.
1820. Following Fingerprint Bureaux exist in Indian Union:
Name of the State Headquarters
1. Andhra Pradesh Hyderabad
2. Assan Shillong
3. Bihar Patna
4. Gujarat Ahmedabad
5. Kerala Thiruvananthapuram
6. Maharashtra Regional Bureau Poona
7. Madhya Pradesh Bhopal
8. Tamilnadu Vellore
9. Karnataka Bangalore
10. Orissa Cuttack
11. Rajasthan Jaipur
12. Punjab Phillaur
13. Uttar Pradesh Allahabad
14. West Bengal Calcutta
1821. There is a Central Fingerprint Bureau for India at Calcutta. The address is as follows
“The Director,
Central Fingerprint Bureau,
Intelligence Bureau (M.H.A.),
Government of India,
30, Gorachand Road,
CALCUTTA – 14.”
“The Superintendent of Police (Director) ,
Fingerprint Bureau,
KHB Complex, Cauvery Bhavan annexure,
Bangalore - 9”
1822. (a) ‘Bureau’ means a Fingerprint Bureau.
(b) ‘Fingerprints’ are impressions of the papillary ridges on the fingers including thumb, either ‘rolled’ or ‘plain’
(c) Rolled Print:- A rolled print is obtained by placing the thumb or the finger upon a tin, glass or metal slab over which a thin film of printer’s ink has been spread by means of the roller, the plane of the nail being at right angles to the plane of the slab, and then the thumb or the finger is turned over until the bulb surface which originally faced to the left now faces to the right, the plane of the nail again being at right angles to the slab. By this means the whole ridge surface of the thumb or fingers between the boundaries of the nail is evenly inked and then pressing it lightly upon the paper in the same way as it was pressed upon inked slab, a clear rolled impression of the thumb or the finger is obtained.
(d) Plain Print:- A plain print is obtained by lightly pressing the inked bulb of thumb or finger upon the paper, without any turning movement.
(e) ‘Unidentified’ means a person whose residence and antecedents are not known.
(f) ‘Identified’ means a person whose residence and antecedents have been verified to be true by the police.
(g) ‘Untraced’ means a person against whom no previous convictions could be established from the records of the Bureau.
(h) ‘Traced’ means a person whose antecedents and previous history have been established from the records of the Fingerprint Bureau.
(i) ‘Suspect’ means any person under arrest or liable to be arrested for a criminal offence on suspicion of his being involved in a crime.
(j) ‘Convicted’ means a person who has been found guilty for the first time by any court of law for any offence.
(k) ‘Reconvicted’ means a person who, having been convicted on one or more previous occasions, is again convicted.
(l) ‘Fingerprint Slips’ are of two kinds: (1) Fingerprint Record Slip and (2) Fingerprint Search Slip.
(i) ‘Fingerprint Record Slip’ is the fingerprint slip of a person prepared in Form No. 214, immediately after he is convicted or reconvicted and sent for record to the Bureau along with Conviction Memorandum (Form No. 217).
(ii) ‘Fingerprint Search Slip’ is the fingerprint slip of a suspect taken on Form No. 214, by the Station House Officer and sent for search to the Bureau at Bangalore with Form No. 215, in order to know his antecedents.
(m) ‘Proficient’ means an officer who has been declared by a Superintendent of
the district or by the Commissioner in Bangalore City, to be qualified to take clear and well rolled finger impressions and clear impressions of the palms and soles of feet, on passing a test to be held by the Director, Fingerprint Bureau, Bangalore.
(n) ‘Searcher’ means an officer who has been declared by the ADGP (TS) to be competent to examine and classify finger impressions.
(o) ‘Expert’ means an officer, who has been trained in the Finger print Science and declared by the compitent authority as an expert and an officer who passes the examination held by the All-India Board for Examination of Fingerprint Experts.
(p) “Foot-Print Expert” means an officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector who has been declared by the ADGP (TS) , Bangalore, to be competent to take, examine and identify foot-print impressions and to give expert opinion on foot-print impressions.
(q) Absconder’s Slip:- This is a special form (Red slip) used in the Bureau. This slip is attached to the original F.P. Slip of the convict who is reported to be an absconder, O.V. or wanted in any crime.
Training
1823. (i) Training in the State Bureau, Bangalore, will be both theoretical and practical. It will cover the following:
(ii) History of criminal identification; taking of fingerprints of living and dead persons; definitions of ridges, creases, deltas, core, ridge characteristics, various types of fingerprints; patterns; ridge counting; ridge tracing; classification of 10 digits according to Henry System and other systems and various forms of extensions in use in India and other countries; classification, testing, indexing, recording and searching search slips; development of latent prints; comparison of latent prints; examination of scene of crime; taking of exhibits bearing fingerprints; law of probability; detection of forged prints; how to give opinion on fingerprints; how to prepare exhibits for courts; how to give evidence; Battley’s Single Digit System of classification, recording, searching, etc.
(iii) A candidate will be eligible to appear for the All-India Board Examination for Fingerprint Experts, provided he has the prescribed educational qualifications and has had a minimum of 3 years service including training in the State Bureau.
1824. The Fingerprint Bureau will examine disputed documents received from the (i) Civil Courts, (ii) Criminal Courts, (iii) Superintendents of the districts, (iv) Lokayuktha, (v) Central Bureau of investigation (vi) All the departments of the Government of Karnataka, and furnish written expert opinion as per the orders issued from time to time by Government in this behalf.
The opinion should be furnished in Form No.234.
Registers
The Finger Print Bureau, Bangalore will maintain the following registers :
(1) Register of fingerprint slips received for search (Form No.235).
(2) Register of identification made by the Fingerprint Bureau (Form No.236).
(3) Register of fingerprint slips received for record in the Fingerprint Bureau (Form No.237).
(4) Fingerprint Testing Register (Form No.238).
(5) Fingerprint Objection Memorandum Register (Form No.228).
(6) Requisition Register (Form No.239).
Appliances – Their Upkeep
1825. (a) The appliances required for taking fingerprints comprise of a glass or metal slab, India rubber roller and a pot or a tube of printer’s ink. These must be kept scrupulously clean and free from dust, grit or hairs. The slab should be cleaned every day before and after use. The roller, when not in use, should be kept in a piece of clean oiled paper. The slab and the roller should be cleaned periodically with soap, benzene or kerosene. The pot or tube of ink should be kept tightly closed when not in use.
Use of Appliances
(b) The slab must be perfectly smooth and should be wiped free of dust before use. A small quantity of ink should then be put on the slab with the point of a knife and then it should be evenly spread with the roller. The roller should be used to bring down the ink into a finest possible film so that the slab is dimly visible through the ink. If the slab is too heavily inked, the ink will get into the furrows when the finger is pressed against it. The resultant print will be a smudge. Experience has shown that it is easier to start with a little quantity of ink and then go on adding bit by bit until a film of required density is spread on the slab. If, by chance, too much ink has been put on the slab, the quantity of ink can be reduced by putting a sheet of paper on the inked slab and gently rolling over it with the roller. If the ink is dry and thick, it will be found that it can be spread smoothly on the slab with a little perseverance.
Person Authorised to take Fingerprints
1826. Finger impressions will be taken only by proficients under the direction of an officer of the rank of Sub-Inspector or above as provided in the Identification of Prisoners’ Act (Act XXXIII of 1920). The Sub-Inspector or the Inspector directing the proficient to take finger impressions should sign the fingerprint slip.
Proficients
1827. In each Police Station including Railway Police Station there should at least be two Proficients. The proficients should be of the rank of either a Head Constable or a senior Police Constable.
Training of the Proficients
1828. Head Constables and Constables selected for the purpose should be trained at the District Crime Record Bureau of each district and at Record Section in the case of City Police Stations, in batches of 10 to 20.
(a) The training will be for a period of 10 days as follows:-
Ist Day
(1) The use of appliances for taking finger-prints and the reason why they should be kept scrupulously clean.
(2) How to take rolled prints and plain prints with explanation of difference between them.
2nd Day
(1) Explanation of ‘deltas’ and ‘cores’ in finger impressions.
(2) Practice in taking finger impressions.
3rd Day
(1) Explanation of all entries on a finger impression slip form.
(2) Explanation of all the abbreviations to be used in the finger-print slip for record.
(3) Explanation of the difference between fingerprint slips of convicted persons for record and fingerprint slips of reconvicted persons for record.
4th Day
(1) Method of taking palm-prints.
(2) Practice in taking palm-prints.
5th Day
(1) Method of taking foot-prints.
(2) Practice in taking foot-prints.
6th Day
(1) Explanation of the single digit cards.
(2) Method of taking impressions on single digit cards.
(3) Practice in taking finger, palm and foot-prints.
7th Day
(1) Revision of the whole course.
(2) Practice in obtaining fingerprints.
8th Day
(1) Revision of the instructions regarding entries to be made on fingerprints slips for search. Practice in taking prints.
9th Day
(1) Revision of the instructions regarding entries to be made on the fingerprint slips for record. Practice in taking impressions.
10th Day
(7) Test to be held by the Director, Fingerprint Bureau, Bangalore.
(b) The training will be imparted by the Dy.S.P. in-charge of the District Crime Record Bureau or an Officer who has received training in Fingerprint Science at the Fingerprint Bureau, Bangalore.
© The training programme should be fixed in consultation with the Director, Fingerprint Bureau, Bangalore, who will conduct a test on the last day of the training.
(d) On the conclusion of training and test, the successful candidates will be declared as proficients by the Superintendent or the Commissioner, as the case may be.
Persons whose Fingerprints are to be taken for Record
1829. The fingerprints of the following persons (juveniles excepting those sent to certified schools, adults, males, females or eunuchs) should ordinarily be taken for permanent record.
i) All persons convicted of offences under Chapters XII and XVII of the Indian Penal Code, which are punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term of one year or more.
ii) All persons convicted of any offence under Chapter VI of the Indian Penal Code, or of sabotage and subversive activities against the State.
iii) All persons convicted of offences under Sections 170 and 302 and 304 (murder for gain), 328, 338, 465 to 477-A and 489-D of the Indian Penal Code.
iv) All persons convicted under the Arms, Opium or Excise act, who are suspected to be smugglers in arms, opium or dangerous drugs as defined in the Dangerous Drugs Act, 1930, or entailing punishment on reconviction.
v) All persons convicted of smuggling gold, currency and valuable articles under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947.
vi) All persons ordered to execute bonds under sections 109 and 110 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
vii) All traffickers in women and children who are convicted under sections 363 to 373 of the Indian Penal Code.
viii) All persons convicted under Section 5 of the Telegraph Wires (Unlawful Possession) Act, 1950, for unlawful possession of telegraph wires.
ix) All persons convicted for offences under Section 3 and 4 of the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession) Act, 1965, for unlawful possession of Railway Property.”
x) All professional criminals and persons of dangerous character externed from any area under any State Act (Sections 54, 55 and 56 of the Karnataka Police Act, 1963).
xi) All foreigners externed under the Foreigners Act, 1946.
xii) All approvers in gang, decoity and criminal conspiracy cases.
xiii) All persons suspected of being professional intinerant criminals and persons of notoriously criminal reputation who habitually absent themselves from their homes and are believed to travel to other States for the purpose of committing crime and who have been arrested by police and whose fingerprints have been taken, even if they are acquitted, provided that in the case of acquittal, permission for record of fingerprints is obtained under Section 7 of the Identification of Prisoners Act.
xiv) All persons convicted for attempt or abetment (Section 511 or Section 169/114 of the Indian Penal Code) and criminal conspiracy (Section 120-B of the Indian Penal Code) for offences mentioned in this Order.
xv) All Indian nationals convicted outside India of any offence for which fingerprints have been received at the State Bureau from those countries.
xvi) All international criminals and absconders whose fingerprints are sent to the State Bureau from countries outside India.
xvii) All persons convicted under the Explosive Substances Act, 1908.
xviii) All persons convicted under the Official Secrets Act, 1923.
xix) All persons convicted under Sections 126 and 128 of the Indian Railways Act, 1890.
xx) Any other person whose fingerprints are ordered to be maintained by the Government of India from time to time subject to the provisions of Identification of Prisoners Act.
xxi) All persons convicted under Sections 96, 108, 113 and 114 of the Karnataka Police Act, 1963.
xxii) Persons convicted under Section 76 Excise Act, 1961.
xxiii) Foreigners when convicted for offences punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term of one year or upwards under the Indian Penal Code.
xxiv) Persons notified under the Karnataka Habitual Offenders Act, 1962, convicted of offences under Section 16 of the Act, and of any of the offences narrated in the schedule to the said Act.
xxv) All persons, not specially provided for above, regarding whom it is considered desirable that there should be a permanent record. These include –
(a) persons of disreputable antecedents,
(b) persons who take part in violent crimes, whether political or non-political, involving injury to body, life or property and
(c) the following classes only of persons connected with political offences:
(i) persons who use aliases or otherwise, endeavour to conceal their identity to facilitate commission of political crime; and
(ii) persons about whom, because of their hidden activities, it is desirable that there should be permanent record.
Note:- The fingerprints of persons, who are locals and who have been convicted of offences of trivial nature, need not ordinarily be taken.
Persons whose Fingerprints should not be Taken
1830. Fingerprints of lepers should not be taken on any account. Fingerprints of persons suffering from contagious and infectious diseases should not be taken until completely recovered.
DUTIES OF THE DISTRICT POLICE AND SEARCH REFERENCES
1831. (a) The fingerprints of all unidentified persons who are arrested as suspects or are under trial on a criminal charge, will be taken on Form No. 214 by the Station House Officer and submitted to the Bureau at Bangalore with a search slip (counterfoil and trifoil) for search in Form No. 215, after entering the details in the Fingerprint Register of Unidentified Persons (Form No. 216). The search slip should contain full details of the circumstances under which the suspect has come into the hands of the police and also information regarding convictions with Bureau serial number, if known. The Bureau will return the trifoil of the search slip duly filled in to the Station House Officer.
. (b) For this purpose, every person in custody whose residence and antecedents are not known or have not been fully ascertained during the police investigation, or of persons, who though known, have been out of view for some time, will be considered to be ‘unidentified’.
(c) Three sets of fingerprints [two sets only in the case of persons falling under items (xxi) to (xxv) of Order 1796], will be taken on the arrest of an accused person and the name and other particulars filled in, immediately after the prints have been recorded. Resistance to or refusal to allow the taking of fingerprints is an offence under Section 186 of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 6 of the Identification of Prisoners Act. If a person, who is required to allow his finger-prints to be taken, resists or refuses to allow the taking of the same, it will be lawful, under Section 6 (1) of the Identification of Prisoners Act, to use all means necessary to secure the taking thereof.
Number of Copies of Slips Required for Record
1832. The number of fingerprint slips required for record is as follows:
(1) Of ordinary convicts convicted in their home State, one copy will be taken for record in the Bureau of the State of conviction;
(2) Of all convicts:
(a) who are wanderers, unidentified or whose operations are known to extend beyond the limits of their home State; or
(b) who, though themselves residents of the State of conviction are really foreigners and are thus likely to have relations with criminals of other States; or
(c) who have been notified under the Karnataka Habitual Offenders Act and are known or believed to be connected with organised gangs in other States; or
(d) who have been convicted of theft of fire-arms and ammunition or under Arms, Opium or Excise Acts in circumstances which render it likely that they are illicit inter-state dealers in arms and ammunition, opium, cocaine or other drugs; or
(e) who have been convicted under Section 328 of the Indian Penal Code, if the offence was of a professional type or under Sections 231 to 253 of the Indian Penal Code, and Sections 489-A to 489-D and who are believed to be operating in another State.
(3) Of a foreigner convicted of an offence of the type in which finger-prints would ordinarily be taken for record under the rules, the fingerprints and photographs should be taken in duplicate and sent by the Superintendent of the district in which the case was registered, one for record in the State Bureau and the other for transmission to the Central Fingerprint Bureau.
As many copies will be taken as are required for record in (i) the State Bureau, (ii) the Bureau of the State of which the convicts are alleged to be residents or to which their operations are known to have extended, and (iii) the Central Fingerprint Bureau, Calcutta;
Submission of Fingerprint Slips for Search to Other Bureaux
1833 (a) When an unidentified person is, or is reasonably suspected to have extended his operations to another State, reference should also be made by the Station House Officer with Copies of his fingerprint slips in the manner prescribed, direct to the Bureau of the State of which he is a native or of the States where his operations are believed to extend.
(b) When sending the fingerprint slips of an under-trail prisoner or suspect for search, the names of the Bureaux to which the copies of the fingerprint slips have been sent for search should be noted on each slip.
Fingerprint Slips for Search to Central F.P.B., Calcutta
(c) . ( i) If, in the case of unidentified persons belonging to other States, it is not possible to establish satisfactorily the antecedents and criminal histories of such persons from the replies of State Bureau, Bangalore, and Bureau of other States, then the Station House Officer should send a fingerprint slip for a further search to Central Fingerprint Bureau, Calcutta.
(ii) The fingerprint slips of the unidentified dead bodies should be sent for search to the Central Fingerprint Bureau, Calcutta. The word MALE or FEMALE, as the case may be, should invariably be recorded on the fingerprint search slips of the unidentified dead bodies.
(d) In the case of all unidentified persons arrested in railway offences [Item Nos. (ii) to (xxi) of Order 1796] one set of fingerprint slip should invariably be sent to the Central Fingerprint Bureau, Calcutta, in addition to those sent to the State Bureau, Bangalore, and the Bureaux of other States.
Points to be Noted Preparing Fingerprint Slips
1834. The following points should be specially noted in preparing fingerprint slips:-
(i) Inking the Fingers:- Before inking the fingers they should be thoroughly washed with soap, if necessary, and rubbed clean and dry as the presence of slightest moisture on the fingers will cause blotches and blur the finger impressions. Some persons perspire heavily and the presence of the sweat on the bulbs of the fingers may prevent the oily ink from adhering to the fingers resulting in the impressions being smudged. Under such circumstances denatured spirit or alcohol can be used with much advantage for drying the fingers. Only the inner portions of the upper phalanges of the fingers should be inked. To take ‘Rolled’ impressions, the method described in the definition of the rolled impressions should be followed for inking the fingers. For ‘Plain’ impressions the ridge surface of the fingers should be inked at the same spot on the slab without re-inking the slab.
(ii) Taking of Impressions:- Prints should invariably be obtained on the prescribed fingerprint slip (Form No. 214). In the slip, space has been provided for the rolled prints of the ten digits as well as for the plain prints of the four fingers of each hand and two thumbs. The headings on the slip are self-explanatory.
(iii) Slips to be folded for taking rolled prints:- For convenience in taking ‘rolled’ prints, the slip should be folded at the line indicated and the fold placed in line with the edge of the table.
(iv) Order of taking prints:- The ‘rolled’ prints of the right hand should be taken first, each finger being inked and impressed before the next finger in rotation is inked. When the rolled prints of the right hand fingers have been taken, the operator should take the ‘plain’ prints of the four fingers of that hand simultaneously in the space provided for them on the slip. The operator should then proceed to take the ‘rolled’ and plain’ prints of the left hand fingers in a similar manner. The plain impressions of the right and the left thumbs should be taken simultaneously in the spaces provided.
(v) Impressions must invariably be taken with the tip of the finger pointing to the top of the form.
(vi) The ‘rolled’ prints should show the complete contour of the bulbs of the fingers. One delta in the case of the ‘loops’ and two in the case of ‘whorls’ and ‘composites’ should be visible.
(vii) The ‘rolled’ print of each finger must be taken on the space allotted for that finger and the impression should not project beyond that space. The impression of only upper phalanges of the finger should appear.
(viii) If a finger is missing or is so deformed that it is impossible to obtained an impression, the fact should be noted in ink in the space allotted for that finger by the words ‘missing’ or ‘deformed’.
(ix) In the case of double fingers, the printers of both fingers should, if possible, be taken; otherwise, the print on the more prominent of the two should invariably be taken.
(x) Deformities, cuts, scars and disease marks interfering with the clearness of the impressions should be fully described and it should be stated if they are temporary or permanent. If there are open cuts or scars in any of the top phalanges of the fingers of the subject, the prints of such fingers should not be taken until the cuts or scars have healed.
(xi) Extra fingers:- If a person has more than five fingers on a hand, impressions of the thumb and the four fingers next to it should be taken in the squares allotted to them on the slip. If the extra finger is outside the thumb, its impression should be taken in the space on the slip before the thumb, and if it is outside the little finger, in the space after the little finger.
(xii) All entries should be written legibly in English and should be as concise as possible and convictions should be entered in chronological order. While completing the form, unconcerned words on the printed form should be neatly scored out.
(xiii) After the fingerprints of both hands have been taken, the officer, who should not be lower than the rank of a Sub-Inspector, who supervises the taking of the finger impressions, should enter such particulars as are available in the columns provided on the obverse and reverse and duly sign the form in token of verification.
(xiv) The fingerprint slips of one subject should be completely filled in before that of another is commenced, to avoid the risk of the particulars of a subject being entered in the wrong slip.
(xv) Fingerprint slips for despatch should be so folded that the creases do not run through the prints.
Fingerprinting of Unidentified Dead Bodies
1835. (i) The fingerprints of all unidentified dead bodies should be promptly taken and sent to the State Bureau, Bangalore, for comparison with the prints on record in the Bureau or elsewhere with a view to establish the identity of the dead bodies.
(ii) It is a wise precaution to wear gloves when taking fingerprints from a dead body, though the danger of poisoning from the corpse is very small.
` (iii) The technique to be employed in taking fingerprints of a dead body will greatly depend on the state of the body.
(iv) If the body is fresh and its fingers flexible, finger-prints can be taken direct on Form No. 214, through the usual inking and rolling process. Before taking the prints it would be advantageous to dip the fingers of the dead body for a short time in hot water. Thereafter the fingers should be cleaned and all moisture removed. For this purpose any good solvent like alcohol or benzine could be used. After cleaning, the fingers should be thoroughly dried for the reason that body heat is absent in a dead body.
(v) The hands could be dipped in hot water for a short time to make them flexible. Where rigor mortis has appeared, usual inking and rolling process will not succeed and ink has to be directly applied to the fingers with a rubber roller and the print taken finger by finger on small pieces of paper by holding each piece in the palm of the hand pressing it against the finger. If the prints are blurred, there is no objection to take more than one impression of a finger till a clear print is taken. Each finger slip should thereafter be pasted in its appropriate place on Form No. 214. A curved metal or wooden spoon could, if necessary, be used for taking the prints.
(vi) If the fingers are clenched, they will have to be forcibly straightened either by bending the hands forward or backward at the wrist or forcibly stretching the fingers. In extreme case tendons should be cut by a surgeon in order to straighten the fingers.
(vii) When the skin of the fingers is shrunken or wrinkled, on account of submersion in water, the surface of the fingers can be rounded out and smoothened by injecting glycerin, melted paraffin, hot water or air into the tissues.
(viii) If the prints obtained by the above methods are not found adequately clear and decipherable, the Medical Officer holding post-mortem should be asked to remove the skin from the fingers. The skin of each finger should then be placed in a labelled bottle or tube containing formal dehyde solution or in a solution of glycerine and alcohol for preservation and transport to be the Bureau. The label of each container should indicate the name of the finger. A separate bottle or tube should be used for each finger.
(ix) The fingerprints in Form No. 214 or the dissected skins of fingertips or both, should be sent to the Bureau promptly with a forwarding report furnishing details such as Police Station, Crime No., Section of Law, history of the case and date and time of (a) finding the dead body, (b) taking fingerprints and (c) post-mortem and dissection of finger skins.
Method of Proving Previous Convictions in Traced Cases
1836. If, on the return of the search slip from the Bureau, it is found that previous convictions have been traced against the accused, steps should be taken to prove such previous convictions, when necessary, under Section 298, Criminal Procedure Code, which requires:-
(a) that a certified copy of the previous convictions should be filed; and
(b) that the identity of the accused should be proved.
Proof of Last Conviction will Generally Suffice
1837. In the case of a person who has been previously convicted more than once, it will generally suffice to prove the last conviction only, provided that the former convictions were proved in that case and are mentioned in the judgement.
Method of Proving Identity of the Accused
1838 (a) . The identity of the accused should ordinarily be proved by the evidence of a Police Officer who is cognizant of the previous conviction, or by a Jail Officer who can recognise the accused as the prisoner who underwent the previous sentence of imprisonment, but if such witnesses to identity cannot be obtained, identity may be proved under Sections 45 and 73 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (Act I of 1872) as amended by Act V of 1899, by means of expert evidence, for which purpose the record slip must be obtained from the Bureau by which the accused was traced and the services of the expert requisitioned from the State Bureau, Bangalore.
(b) When it is required to prove the identity of the accused person by means of his fingerprints traced in a Bureau, other than the Home Bureau, the following procedure will be observed:
(c) The Prosecutor will move the court to issue under Section 91 Cr. P.C. a summons to the Director of the Fingerprint Bureau, in possession of the traced slip, to produce from the records and send by post under a registered cover the original fingerprint slip containing the fingerprints of the convict whom the prosecution alleges to be the accused, in order that the court may compare the fingerprints taken before it with the fingerprints on the slip on record in the Fingerprint Bureau. A spare copy of the slip containing the fingerprints and previous convictions of the convict concerned taken in the presence of the Magistrate should invariably accompany such summons and will be retained in the Bureau in place of the original slip sent to the court until it is sent back by the court.
(d) If, on the production of this slip, the accused does not admit that the prints on it are his, the court should be asked to proceed under Section 45 of the Indian Evidence Act and take the opinion of an expert summoned for the purpose from the Fingerprint Bureau, Bangalore.
(e) If the slip is traced by the Fingerprint Bureau, Bangalore, a demand on the summons for the production of the traced slip by the expert deputed to give evidence in the case will suffice and the issue of a separate summons under Section 91 Cr. P.C. can be dispensed with.
Procedure Regarding Fingerprint Slips to be Sent for Record by Station House Officers
1839 (a) If the persons charged is convicted, all the particulars of the conviction should be filled in and if the convict has previous convictions, all particulars of his previous and present convictions in the chronological order with their Fingerprint Bureau serial numbers will be entered in the second and third sets of fingerprint slips and forwarded to the District Crime Record Bureau, together with a conviction memorandum and the trifoil of Form No. 215.
(b) If the prisoner is acquitted or discharged, the Station House Officer will file the fingerprint slips taken by him along with the Station copy of the case diary, except in the case of persons mentioned in item (xiv) of the Order 1796, in whose case the fingerprint slips should be sent to the State Bureau for record after taking permission under Section 7 of the Identification of Prisoners Act.
(c) Following instructions are issued for completing the entries in the fingerprint slips sent for record:
(i) In the case of convicts who remain unidentified, of the two words ‘unidentified’ and ‘identified’ appearing on the top left hand corner of the side of the slip containing the entries of convictions, the word ‘identified’ should be scored out in red ink. In the case of reconvicted persons whose fingerprints are known or believed to be already on record, the word ‘unidentified’ of the two words referred to above, should be scored out in red ink, in order that it may attract special attention in the Bureau and render it impossible for two different slips of the same person being kept on record.
(ii) The name of the court should be indicated by the use of locally accepted abbreviations.
(iii) Dates should be given in figures. The name of months should not be used. Thus Ist July, 1964 will be written as 01.07.1964.
(iv) When entering the section of the law under which the convict was convicted, numerals should be used to denote the number of the section. The following abbreviations should be used to denote the law:
I.P.C. – Indian Penal Code.
Cr. P.C. – Criminal Procedure Code.
H.O.Act –Karnataka Habitual Offenders Act, 1961.
(v) If the conviction is in a case investigated by the Railway Police, the letter “Ry. P.” should be written below the section of conviction on the fingerprint slip.
(vi) The following abbreviations should be used in describing the sentence:
Yr. – Year.
M. – Month.
Wk. – Week.
Dy. – Day.
R.I. – Rigorous Imprisonment.
S.I. – Simple Imprisonment.
S.C. – Solitary Confinement.
(vii) The number of days, weeks, months and years, should be noted in numerals, e.g., “3 yrs. R.I.” Which means three years rigorous imprisonment.
(viii) Should a person be fined, the amount of the fine only is to be entered in numerals, for example “3 Yrs. R.I.” Rs. 500 or 6 M.’s R.I.”
(ix) In the case of persons called upon to furnish security and to execute a bond, the letters S and B with the figures of the amount of the bond or bonds and security, as the case may be, should be entered with the period of imprisonment fixed for default to furnish, for instance “B.R. 40 and S. Rs. 100 for 6 M.’s or 6 M.’s R.I.”
(x) Under column “Police Station, case No. and date”, first show the name of the Police Station in full followed by the crime No. (F.I.R. No…… -hyphen ‘year’.)
(xi) In the case of the person convicted for offences registered in more than one Police Station, each Station House Officer concerned should submit a fingerprint slip for record separately.
(xii) On receipt of the fingerprint slip in Form No. 214, of persons convicted/ reconvicted together with the conviction memorandum (in Form No. 217) and the trifoil of the search slip (Form No. 215) and the last part of the diary in Form No. 138 in the District Crime Record Bureau, they will be entered in the register (Form No. 218) and Sl. Nos. of the district will be noted on the conviction memorandum. After noting the slip in the register, the District Crime Record Bureau will sort out the slips and make two lots as under:
(xiii) The fingerprint slips of persons sentenced to fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month and of persons released under Section 360 Cr. P.C. and of persons who have furnished security immediately after being bound over under Section 109 or 110 Cr. P.C.
(xiv) If the Superintendent or subject to his general supervision, the Sub-Divisional Police Officer decides that it is unnecessary to send the fingerprints for record, the slip will be destroyed and the Station House Officer informed. If he decides to the contrary, he will forward the fingerprint slip direct to the State Bureau at Bangalore for record along with the conviction memo after the expiry of the period of appeal or the appeal, if preferred, has been decided. The conviction memorandum should be returned to the Station House Officer, on receipt form the Bureau. Such fingerprint slips and memos will be numbered and placed on the file but will not be submitted to the Fingerprint Tester.
(xv) The fingerprint slips of persons not covered by the previous clauses.
(xvi) In all other cases coming under clause (xv), the Superintendent will decide whether the fingerprint slips should be recorded in the Fingerprint Bureau or not, Such of those fingerprint slips as are not to be recorded will be destroyed and the Station House Officer informed. Where it is decided to record, the same will be sent to the Superintendent of the district in which the jail, where the prisoner is imprisoned, is situated.
(xvii) If the fingerprint slip is obviously unfit for record in the Bureau, the fingerprint Head Constable attached to the District Crime Record Bureau of the district in which the jail is situated will prepare a fresh slip and make it available to the Fingerprint Tester, who will proceed according to the instruction in Orders 1841 infra.
1840. If a convict is transferred from one District Jail to another before the arrival of the Tester, the Superintendent will forward the fingerprint slip and conviction memo to the Superintendent of the district to which the prisoner has been transferred where it will be placed with the other slips of the district awaiting tester.
1841. (a)On the arrival in a district of the Tester, the files containing the conviction memoranda and fingerprint slips will be handed over to him and he will proceed to test the slips at the jail and to complete all details which are required by the Bureau. In making the test, the Tester will prepare for each prisoner a slip in Form No. 219 and will satisfy himself that the prints have been properly taken on the original fingerprint slips and that they are those of the convict named in the slip, that all the particulars recorded in the slip are correct. That all convictions are properly and correctly entered and that the required number of copies have been taken. Any mistakes should be brought to the notice of the Superintendent. Fingerprint slips containing blurred or indistinct impressions should be rejected and should be replaced by fresh slips prepared by the Tester; but where the fingerprint slips prepared by the Station House Officers are sufficiently clear, those slips should be sent to the Bureau for record.
(b) After having tested the slips, the Tester will note the word ‘tested’ with his initials and date (1) against the prisoner’s name in the jail admission registers, (2) in the District Crime Record Bureau Fingerprint Register (Form No. 218), (3) on the back of the conviction memos, and (4) on the history tickets.
(c) The Tester is responsible for the correctness of the conviction and all other details entered by him or the Station House Officer on the reverse of the slip. He will sign each slip that he has tested and his signature will be held to show that he has verified the sentence, previous conviction and personal details of the convict from the judicial and jail records.
(d) Whenever the Tester visits the jail, he will check the admission since his last visit and report all cases in which the fingerprint slips of convicted persons have not been sent for test. He will prepare the slips of all such persons and give them to the Superintendent concerned with his report.
1842. (a) Fingerprint slips and conviction memoranda, after being tested, will be made over by the Tester to the Superintendent who will send the slips belonging to his district to the State Bureau, Bangalore, provided that the time of appeal is over or the appeal (if any) has been decided. If no appeals is preferred, a remark to that effect will be made on each slip. The acknowledgement form (Form No. 220) will be attached to each slip before transmission to the Fingerprint Bureau for record.
Note:- It will be the duty of the Station House Officer to intimate the Superintendent whether the person whose fingerprint slip is sent for record has or has not preferred an appeal and if an appeal is preferred, the result thereof. A note to this effect should be made in the District Police Office below the conviction for which the fingerprint slip is sent for record.
(b) In the case of fingerprint slips of other districts, the tested slips will be returned to the Superintendent of the district where the persons were convicted for transmission to the State Bureau, Bangalore, as per Sub Order (a).
(c) Every fingerprint slip sent for record in the Bureau will be accompanied by its relative conviction memorandum. The Bureau will return the conviction memorandum duly signed by the Director, Fingerprint Bureau, with the Fingerprint Bureau serial number and classification noted in the columns provided for the purpose. On receipt of the conviction memorandum from the Fingerprint Bureau, the Superintendent will send it for file to the Station House Officer who will enter the Bureau serial number and the classification in the concerned station records. In subsequent references to the Bureau, this serial number will invariably be quoted.
1843. The fingerprints of an adolescent sent to a special institution should be sent for record to the Bureau of the State of which he is a resident and a copy kept in the Bureau of the State in which he is convicted.
Fingerprints of Persons Convicted in one State who are Believed to have had their Origin in Another State, for Record
1844. The fingerprints of persons convicted in one State who are believed to have had their origin in another State, though not actually identified as residents thereof, will be taken in duplicate and sent to the State Bureau, Bangalore. The State Bureau will retain one copy for its record and transmit the second copy to the Bureau of the State of origin of the convict.
1845. When a prisoner escapes from police or jail custody and his fingerprints have been taken prior to his escape, the fingerprint slip, whether it would otherwise be forwarded to the Bureau or not under the rules, should be forwarded to the State Bureau, Bangalore, at once, with particulars of the circumstances of the escape, so that it may be placed on the record. When the slip has already been forwarded, it will be necessary to inform the Bureau of the escape in order that the slip may be suitably marked in accordance with Order 1835 infra.
1846. All slips received for search will be returned within 24 hours of receipt, if possible.
Work of the Bureau and Action on Fingerprint Slips Received for Record in the Bureau
1847. Every slip received for record will be carefully scrutinised before acceptance with regard to the clarity and order of impressions, details of convictions, etc. The accepted fingerprint slips should be classified by one officer and tested by another and then indexed and recorded. The acknowledgements of the recorded fingerprint slips along with the fingerprint formula and the Bureau serial number should be sent to the District Crime Record Bureau. The defective slips will be returned to the District Police Office with an objection slip (Form No. 221) for rectification of defects and resubmission.
Bureau Classification
1848 (a). All classification and arrangement of slips will be done in accordance with the Henry system and in the case of larger groups with extensions of Henry-Chatterjee System.
(b)Nominal Index Cards will be maintained for all convicts whose fingerprints are recorded in the Bureau.
Distribution of Slips by Bureau of State of Conviction
1849. All copies of slips taken for record should be submitted to the State Bureau, Bangalore, and it will forward the copies intended for other Bureaux including the Central Fingerprint Bureau, Calcutta, noting on each copy the names of the other Bureaux in which the slip is on record.
Action on Absconders and Untraced Surveillees whose Fingerprints are on Record
1850 (a) If any person whose fingerprint slip has been sent for record is subsequently declared a proclaimed offender, or escapes from jail or police custody, or absconds after committing some offences, or being a history-sheeted person becoming out of view, the Station House Officer will send immediately, information to the Superintendent in Form No.222 for transmission to the State Bureau, Bangalore.
(b) On receipt of the report referred to in the preceding order, a red slip in Form No.223 will be attached to the slip so that immediate information may be given to the police by whom the absconder is wanted, in the event of the absconder’s fingerprints being subsequently traced. In such cases, a copy of the red slip together with the absconder’s classification number will be sent by the Bureau receiving the report to the Bureaux in which the absconder’s fingerprints are on record. If and when the fingerprint slips of such persons are traced, an intimation in Form No.224 should be sent to the Superintendent concerned.
Reports of Deaths
1851. If a convict whose fingerprints have been taken dies in jail, the Superintendent, if the deceased was convicted in his district, will forward a death report in Form No.225 to the State Bureau, Bangalore. Should such a convict die in jail after transfer, the Superintendent of the district in which the jail is situated will forward the death report to the Superintendent of the district in which the deceased was convicted, who will forward the same to the State Bureau, Bangalore. Should a convict die after release from jail, the Station House Officer will forward the death report to the State Bureau, Bangalore, through the Superintendent. The State Bureau, Bangalore, will inform the other Bureaux where the deceased’s slip is on record.
Removal of Slips on Receipt of Death Reports
1852. The slips of persons reported to have died in jail will be removed from the record and destroyed at once. In cases of death of persons reported by the Station House Officer, the date of the death report will be marked in red ink across the slip which will remain in the record for another two years when it will be removed and destroyed.
Periodical Elimination of Fingerprint Slips
1853 (a) All slips will be examined annually and in the absence of any special reasons to the contrary, those enumerated below will be withdrawn from the record.
(b) In the case of a person who is a professional prisoner, note-forger, coiner, arms smuggler, or a habitual offender notified under the Karnataka Habitual Offenders Act of 1961, on his attaining the age of 80 years or on his death whichever is earlier, or on his becoming physically unfit by reason of blindness, etc., to commit crime.
In the Case of any other Person
1854. (a) If he has not more than two convictions in his native district (not having been convicted outside his native district) and has not, subsequent to his conviction or last conviction, as the case may be, been suspected of crime or convicted, on the expiry of ten years from the date of his release from jail , as the case may be; or
(b) If he has been convicted outside his active district or has more than two convictions in his native district and has not, subsequent to his conviction or last conviction, as the case may be, been suspected of crime or convicted, on the expiry of 15 years from the date of his release or last release from jail, as the case may be; or
(c) On his attaining the age of 80 years; or on his death which ever is earlier.
1855. To prevent the possibility of the wrongful destruction of any fingerprint slip in the Bureau, slips withdrawn from record will be sent, if necessary, to the Superintendent concerned for information and destruction. The Superintendent will pass them on to the Sub-Divisional Police Officer concerned for necessary action. If the SDPO has any objection to the destruction of any particular slip, he should return it to the bureau through the Superintendent explaining full why he wants it to be retained.
1856. The destruction of slips of fingerprints which are on record in other Bureaux will be intimated to those Bureaux by the State Bureau, Bangalore.
Central Fingerprint Bureau – Fingerprint Slips to be sent for Record in the Central Bureau, through the State Bureau
1857 A Central Fingerprint Bureau has been established by the Government of India and is functioning at No.30, Gorachand Road, Calcutta. Fingerprint slips of all persons convicted for offences mentioned in Order 1829 should be sent to the State Bureau and a duplicate fingerprint slip for each of these [except in the case of those mentioned in items (xxi) to (xxv) of Order 1796], should be sent for record in the Central Bureau. The fingerprint slips intended for record in the Central Bureau should be sent through the State Bureau and not direct. When sending fingerprint slips for record, they should be sent in duplicate, one with the conviction memorandum for record in the State Bureau and the other, without the conviction memorandum for transmission to the Central Bureau at Calcutta. In the case of persons for whom additional slips have to be recorded in other State Bureaux according to Order 1844, such additional fingerprint slips as are necessary will also be taken and sent.
1858 The procedure prescribed by the Government of India for sending fingerprint slips to the Central Bureau is detailed below. The District Crime Record Bureau should scrutinise the clarity of prints and the correctness of entries before sending slips for record. While sending fingerprint slips for record, despatch memoranda (Form No.226) should be used, filling the relevant entries in all the foils of the form. In no case should fingerprint slips of more than ten persons be sent under a single despatch memorandum.
Instructions for the State Bureau and District Crime Record Bureau for Sending Fingerprint Slips to the Central Bureau
1859 (i) One set of fingerprint slips of all persons convicted of any offence mentioned in items (i) to (xx) of Order 1829, will be prepared by the District Crime Record Bureau, for record in the Central Bureau in addition to the number of sets required for the State Bureau.
(ii) All the fingerprint slips of convicts for record at the Central Bureau will be sent under triplicate despatch memoranda in Form No.226 through the State Bureau.
(iii) In cases where the State Bureau sends fingerprint slips for record to other Bureaux, the Director will issue triplicate despatch memorandum along with these fingerprint slips.
(iv) The State Bureau will see that fingerprint slips of more than ten convicts are in no case sent under a single despatch memorandum.
(v) The State Bureau will maintain a register in Form No.227 to keep an account of the despatch memoranda sent by the District Crime Record Bureau.
(vi) The State Bureau, on receipt of fingerprint slips meant for record at the Central Bureau, will examine the clarity of finger impressions, scrutinise the order of the impressions and entries on the slips and return to the District Crime Record Bureau those fingerprint slips that are unfit for record or do not contain full particulars.
(vii) The State Bureau, which is to issue despatch memoranda for sending fingerprint slips to the Central Bureau, will also maintain a register as stated in Sub-Order (v) above.
(viii) The State Bureau will forward only such fingerprint slips that are fit for record and contain correct particulars to the Central Bureau.
(ix) The State Bureau will keep an account of the fingerprint slips returned to the District Crime Record Bureau for rectification of defects (Form No.228).
(x) The State Bureau will see that all fingerprint slips returned for rectification of defects are submitted to the Central Bureau under a fresh despatch memorandum.
(xi) All intimations regarding absconders will be sent by the State Bureau under a despatch memorandum along with a fingerprint slip, if available, with particulars of the case in which they are wanted and the office to which the intimation of arrest is to be given (in Block Letters).
(xii) In the case of intimation regarding absconders whose fingerprint slips are not available, the State Bureau will send a photostat copy (actual size) of the rolled impressions from the fingerprint record slip of the State under a despatch memorandum.
(xiii) The State Bureau will see that fingerprint slips of persons convicted for the first time and fingerprint slips of persons traced by the Central Bureau when convicted are sent under separate despatch memoranda.
(xiv) In sending fingerprint slips of persons traced by the Central Bureau, the formula supplied by the Central Bureau on the search slip will be noted on the fingerprint record slip.
(xv) The State Bureau, on receipt of duplicate despatch memoranda, with classification formula, from the Central Bureau, will file one copy in the Bureau and send the other to the District Crime Record Bureau.
(xvi) The State Bureau will see that intimation regarding absconders is despatched to the Central Bureau within a week from the date of receipt of the information.
(xvii) The State Bureau will see that all fingerprint slips meant for record at the Central Bureau are despatched within a week from the date of receipt of the slips.
(xviii) State Bureau will see that one extra copy of each fingerprint slip of inter-state, inter-national auto thieves, hotel thieves, prisoners, forgers of currency, cheats and coiners is taken for single print record at the Central Bureau and sent to the Central Bureau with a short note on their modus operandi.
(xix) The State Bureau will bring to the notice of the Central Bureau all new features regarding the science of identification from fingerprints observed by them and any forgery of fingerprints which they may come across.
(xx) The State Bureau has the option to refer to the Central Bureau for scrutiny any case of difference of opinion arising between two State Bureaux.
(xxi) The State Bureau may seek the help of the Central Bureau in solving all problems relating to the science of identification from papillary ridges.
(xxii) All correspondence with the Central Bureau will be addressed to the Director, Central Fingerprint Bureau, No.30, Gorachand Road, Calcutta – 14.
1860 (i) The object of single fingerprint collection is to provide means for the rapid identification of finger marks left at scenes of crime in cases where the culprit is unknown.
(ii) Single fingerprint collection has been introduced in the State Fingerprint Bureau to cover dangerous burglars, robbers and dacoits.
Procedure for the Submission of Fingerprints for the Purpose of Record in the Single Fingerprint Collection
(iii) Immediately after the arrest of a dangerous burglar, robber or dacoit, the Station House Officer should take in addition to the finger impressions in Form No.214, the finger impressions of the ten fingers of the accused on the single digit card in Form No.229 and send it to the Bureau along with two sets of palm and footprints of the accused, taken in Form Nos.230 and 231. There special forms should be sent direct to the State Bureau after disposal of the case, whether it ends in conviction or not.
(iv) The sets of palm and footprints should also contain independently, in the respective sets at the right bottom of the form, as shown in footprint Form No.231, and palm print Form No.230.
(v) The finger impression forms and palm impression forms of the convict should contain the name, parentage, residence, etc., of the convict, and invariably the signature of the Station House Officer with the address. Care should be taken to see that the prints are very distinct and show the whole contour of the bulb of the fingers. The fingerprints, palm and foot impressions which are meant for record in the single fingerprint collection should invariably be sent to the Bureau by name cover and marked as “Meant for S.D. collection”. Care should also be taken to see that the prints are not damaged in folding the paper containing the prints.
1861 (a) All convicted persons finger prints are classified and filed in accordance with ‘Henry system’ in which classification and filing are done taking into consideration each finger’s pattern and ridge counting/tracing. Under this system though individual finger’s pattern and ridge tracing/ counting are independently taken into consideration but the classification formula is arrived at based on all 10 fingers prints collectively.
(b) To retrieve or search finger prints recorded under this system it is absolutely necessary to have ten finger prints taken in specific order.
(c) At the scenes of crime one can seldom find all the ten finger prints of the criminal. Solitary or a few finger prints found at the scene of crime cannot be searched on the records filed as per Henry System, to establish the identify of the criminal if his finger prints are already on records.
(d) To overcome this laquna the ‘Battley’s System’ is devised under which each finger print of the particular digit (finger) is classified and filed separately based on individual pattern and characteristics found in each finger print. A disciplinable finger print found at the scene of crime can be searched on the records filed under this system of single digit Finger Print Recording.
(e) This system too has its own limitations and if finger print slips of all the convicted persons are recorded under this system it may not serve the required purpose. Traditionally the finger prints of persons convicted for offences such as murder, dacoity, robbery, and house break & theft are recorded under this system. If such convicts repeat their previous ‘Modus Operandi’ in committing crimes, their finger print found at the scene of crime can be made use for searching on the Single Digit Finger Print records and fixing the identify of the criminals.
1862. (a) The units are created with the primary purpose of assisting the local police in identifying the criminals responsible for the crimes, through finger prints.
(b) The Police Inspector or Sub-Inspector attached to the unit will visit the scene of crime if requisitioned by the local police under the jurisdiction of the respective unit. He will develop the chance prints and attend to the work of elimination, comparison and searching of the chance prints. At the time of examination of the scene of crime they may obtain the finger prints (palm and sole prints also if necessary) of the inmates concerned for speedy elimination process.
(c) The unit should possess single digit records of all the criminals of murder, dacoity, robbery, House break and thefts, Temple thefts or any other offences which the officer in charge of the unit feels necessary to be recorded.
(d) The officer incharge of the unit should build up auxiliary records of Finger Print Slips (Ten digit) of potential criminals.
(e) Augmentation of the Single Digit Records and the Auxiliary Records should be given importance. To achieve the goal the officer incharge of the unit may visit or depute sub-ordinate officers to, Police Stations or the District Crime Record Bureau under the jurisdiction of the respective unit to collect such Finger Print Slips.
(f) If and when Finger Tips are received by the unit from the Police Station the officer incharge of the unit should prepare the fingerprint slips from them. After searching on the Single Digit Records and if it remains untraced the same F.P. Slip should be forwarded to the Bureau for further search.
ORGANISATION OF THE UNITS:
1863. The Bureau consists of ten units situated at different headquarters. Name of each units headquarters and its sanctioned strength are as follows:-
1. Bangalore city Unit:-
Police Sub-Inspector - 4
Head Constable - 2
Police Constable - 3
2. Gulbarga Unit, Headquarters Gulbarga.
Police Sub-Inspector - 1
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
Full time sweeper - 1
3. Belgaum Unit, Headquarters Belgaum.
Police Sub-Inspector - 1
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
4. Mysore Unit, Headquarters Mysore.
Police Sub-Inspector - 1
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
5. Dharwad Unit, Headquarters Dharwad.
Police Sub-Inspector - 1
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
Police Sub-Inspector - 1
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
7. Mangalore Unit, Headquarters, Mangalore.
Police Sub-Inspector - 1
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
8. Chitradurga Unit, Headquarters Davangere.
Police Sub-Inspector - NIL
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
9. Bellary Unit, Headquarters Bellary.
Police Sub-Inspector - NIL
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
10. Bijapur Unit, Headquarters Bijapur.
Police Sub-Inspector - NIL
Head Constable - 1
Police Constable - 2
JURISDICTION OF THE UNITS
1864. As a step to cater to the needs of other district police the units are provided jurisdictions purely on the basis of administrative convenience and geographical nearness over the districts in addition to the district where the units are functioning as shown below.
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1 |
Bangalore city Unit |
Bangalore city only. |
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2 |
Gulbarga Unit |
Gulbarga and Bidar |
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3 |
Belgaum Unit |
Belgaum only. |
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4 |
Mysore Unit |
Mysore and Mandya. |
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5 |
Dharwad Unit |
Dharwad only. |
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6 |
Shimoga Unit |
Shimoga, Chickmagalore and Hassan. |
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7 |
Mangalore Unit |
Dakshina Kannada, Kodagu and Uttar Kannada. |
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8 |
Chitradurga Unit |
Chitradurga and Tumkur. |
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9 |
Bellary Unit |
Bellary and Raichur. |
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10 |
Bijapur Unit |
Bijapur only. |
A new unit is established for administrative convenience with its headquarters in the Bureau with a staff of one PI and one PSI to cover Bangalore Rural District, Kolar and K.G.F. which functions on the lines of the other units.
Railway Police may requisition the services of the unit which is located at the nearest place.
REGISTERS TO BE MAINTAINED IN THE UNITS:
1865. These registers and forms are described in Police Manual Vol III and they include.
1. Finger Print Objection Memorandum in form No.221.
2. Finger Print Objection Register in form No. 228.
3. Single Digit Finger Print card in form No. 229.
4. Palm Print form in No.230.
5. Foot print form in 231.
6. Certificate of latent finger print examination in form No.234 (ii)
7. Register of Finger Print slips received for record in the Bureau in Form No. 237.
8. Register of requisitions and materials received in Form No.239.
9. Superior officers visiting book.
10. Nominal Index Register.
PROCEDURE FOR SENDING RECORD SLIPS
1866. (a) All the Finger Print Record Slips after conviction and after the expiry of appeal period or in the case of appeal not being preferred, immediately, should be sent to the respective District Crime Record Bureau alongwith the conviction memo in Form No.217 and Search slip in form No. 215. All the enclosures should duly be filled in with the required particulars.
(b) The District Crime Record Bureau will forward the record slips alongwith all its enclosures with the acknowledgement slip in Form No.220 to the Single Digit Finger Print Unit under whose jurisdiction the district comes after making entries in the register in form No.218.
(c) The officer incharge of the Unit should scrutinise such record slips received from the District Crime Record Bureau. If the record slips are defective for want of clear prints or incomplete particulars or if prints are not taken in proper order or in the prescribed form or if in sufficient numbers of records slips are sent, they should be returned to the concerned DCRB with objection memorandum in form No.221.
(d) Receipt and disposal of the record slips should be entered in the register in form No. 237 by the Unit.
(e) The Unit after the completion of the scrutiny will retain one record slip in the unit and submit the other record slips with all enclosures received from the DCRB to the Bureau. One of the such record slips submitted in each crime should be classified by the officer incharge of the unit.
(f) The Bureau after assigning serial number and classification number will return the acknowledgement forms and the conviction memos filled in with Bureau Serial number and classification number to the unit from which they are received.
(g) The unit should make entries of Bureau serial number and the classification of all record slips in the concerned register as well as on the respective record slip retained. Then the conviction memo alongwith the acknowledgement form should be returned to the DCRB from where they are received.
1867 (i) The Station House Officer of each Police Station should submit a statement in Form No.232 to the Superintendent of the district by 5th of each month.
(ii) The District Crime Record Bureau should scrutinise the statements received from the Police Stations and send a consolidated statement in Form No.233 to the Director, Fingerprint Bureau, by 10th of each month.
(iii) The Fingerprint Bureau should scrutinise the statement received from the districts.
(iv) The IGP Technical Services will issue a monthly review of the activities of the State Fingerprint Bureau with copies to all Superintendents.