The Kerala High Court on 14 October directed UIDAI to compare unidentified crime-scene fingerprints with records for Coimbatore district and inform investigators of matching persons’ whereabouts. The court said CDAC could convert the prints into the necessary format and treated the direction as exceptional and non-precedential. The request arose from an unsolved 2016 double murder after one suspect’s fingerprint had been identified.
Judge / Bench — Justice G. Girish.
Advocates appearing — For the petitioner — Public Prosecutor; Director General of Prosecution; P. Narayanan, Special GP to DGP and Additional PP; Sajju S., Senior GP; M. Muhammed Shafi, Additional State PP. For the respondents — Suvin R. Menon, Senior Panel Counsel, and O.M. Shalina, Deputy Solicitor General of India.