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The new DNA-profiling bill, soon to become a law, may be misused, says Olav Albuquerque Article 20 (3) of the Constitution prohibits any person accused of a crime from being a witness against himself, which does not include incriminating material seized from his possession. One can stretch this argument to include DNA samples taken from suspects without their consent because the new law permits a magistrateâs court to allow DNA extraction from suspects in serious crimes Wikipedia Amid the din over the global support for the farmersâ agitation, a new Bill titled the âDNA Technology (Use and Application) Regulation Bill,â which will soon become a law, has gone unnoticed. Courts in India accepted DNA evidence in 1985, but it was not until January 2019 that a bill on the issue was passed by the Lok Sabha, so that India joins over 60 nations which allow DNA profiling to solve crimes. In 2016, Andhra Pradesh became the first state in India to use DNA profiling for crime detection.