The government of India, in its endeavor to rein in terror, must pay heed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that has ruled that extracting DNA samples from convicted felons does not infringe federal prisoners’ religious freedom. Indeed, this must be made a regular practice in all prisons across India. It is now increasingly becoming a necessity to have an extensive database of all criminal elements who fall easy prey to sleeping terror modules working against the people of India. Having details like DNA characteristics of such elements would definitely be an active deterrent against all sorts of criminal elements as it would most certainly instill a sense of insecurity among criminals who would have to take many extra steps to keep their identity under wraps. While the US has got such a law for quite sometime now, India remains reluctant to toe the line.

Indeed, this would be the right deterrent as a criminal, whose DNA has been documented, will not be able to dodge prosecution for the very simple and good reason that their connections can be very easily established after they perpetrate an act of terror against the nation. Nobody, however hard boiled a criminal he may be, overlooks the safety of his family. People basically can savor the fact that some aged members of their family should suffer due to their act of destruction. Terrorists indulge in their dastardly acts only after they are ensured that their family members would remain untouched after their act of crime. A point in case is the confession of the sole living Pakistani terrorist arrested during the Mumbai carnage of 26/11, Ajmal Kasab. He has accepted the fact that his trainers in Pakistan had promised to dole out an amount of more than one hundred fifty Pakistani Rupees to his kins for killing people in India.

Now, we have many terrorists, who originated in India but are having shelter in Pakistan. Indian intelligence agencies are facing tough time to establish their right linkages. Had we kept the law of DNA collection of all criminal elements inside Indian land, it would have been easier for secret agents to function upto the expectations of the nation.