Finger Print Evidence Of Accused Taken Without Magistrate's Order Not Illegal:SC

The Supreme Court has observed that merely due to the absence of a magisterial order authorizing the police to obtain fingerprints of the accused, it cannot be held that the fingerprint evidence was illegally obtained. In Ashish Jain vs. Makrand Singh, the bench comprising Justice NV Ramana and Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar was considering the issue of legality of fingerprints...