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Campaign group reveals child suspect DNA figures

12:10am Monday 20th May 2013 in News

Frances Crook, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform

DORSET Police take DNA samples from an average of seven children every week, figures released today reveal.

Penal reform charity the Howard League have published figures showing that 355 boys and girls aged 17 or under had swabs taken from them in 2011.

Three of the children were aged 10 and 11.

Chief executive of the charity Frances Crook said many of the children were having their DNA taken needlessly.

She said: When public money is tight and police forces are shrinking, it is disappointing to see valuable crime-fighting resources being wasted on taking DNA samples from thousands of innocent children while serious offences go undetected.

Children who get into trouble with the police are usually just up to mischief.

Treating so many like hardened criminals by taking their DNA seems excessive.

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Though court has granted permission for conducting a DNA test to prove the identity of rape case convict Bitti Mohanty, who was arrested here on March 8 on charges of impersonation, forgery and cheating, investigating officers can subject the accused to undergo the examination only with his consent and that of his parent.

The Additional District and Sessions Court here on May 17 allowed the prosecutions plea for conducting the DNA test on Mohanty, who had been working in a public sector bank here under the fake name of Raghav Rajan.

Police officers investigating the case here said they had initiated the procedure for securing the order of the Judicial First Class Magistrate at Payyannur to summon Bitti and his parent for getting their consent for the DNA test.

An officer involved in the probe said the DNA test could not be conducted if they refused to undergo it. The refusal would, however, only favour the prosecution argument, he said, adding no one falsely charged with impersonation would refuse a test that would prove his real identity.

The police sought the DNA test as the arrested person continues to claim that he is Raghav Rajan, and not Bitti Mohanty, though the investigating team had collected evidence from Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jaipur and Puttaparthi.

Bitti allegedly assumed the fake name after he jumped parole in 2006 while undergoing a 7-year sentence in Rajasthan in the case of rape of a German national.

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