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The Criminal Procedure of Code (CrPC) is yet to entertain Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test of the human beings in Bangladesh, repots BDNEWS.
Criminal law expert advocate Anisul Huq Saturday said that though the DNA test is not a matter of the CrPC, the identification of human beings is nowadays taking place through DNA tests.
"The DNA test is a matter of Evidence Act of 1872. When the Evidence Act was enacted, there was no system of entertaining the DNA test of human beings to prove their identities," he said.
Advocate Anis said process of DNA test should be incorporated as rules in the concerned law in order to prove the identity of the human being in the country.
"The Evidence Act-1872 till now does not cover the DNA test. The DNA test has been introduced in many countries of the world with the progress of science and technology and it is used as a process of identifying the human beings. In necessity, amendment should be made in the law to accept the DNA test report," he said.
Referring to the case of abduction and killing of business millionaire and BNP leader of Chittagong Jamaluddin Ahmed Chowdhury, advocate Huq said the DNA test report has proved that the skeleton exhumed by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from a remote forest in Fatikchhari Upazila last year is of Jamaluddin.
"It has been primarily proved from the DNA test that Jamaluddin Ahmed Chowdhury was killed after abduction. The DNA test has identified Jamaluddin but not his assassins. The matter of finding out killers of Jamaluddin depends on the investigation," he said.
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