PTI

New Delhi, July 24

The authorities on Monday withdrew the DNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill, 2019, from the Lok Sabha.

Amid sloganeering by Opposition members over the Manipur violence, Union Minister Jitendra Singh withdrew the Bill when the House reassembled at 12 midday after an earlier adjournment.

The Bill seeks to manage the use and utility of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) expertise for the needs of building the identification of sure classes of individuals, together with victims, offenders, suspects, undertrials, these lacking and unidentified deceased.

The Bill was launched on July 8, 2019, and referred to the Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change for examination.

The report of the committee was laid in Lok Sabha on February 3, 2021.

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