Pak law does not permit taking voice sample: Rehman Malik

Thimphu, Jul 25 (PTI) Pakistan says its Constitution
does not permit taking voice samples of any accused but still
it would "exhaust" all possible means to give voice samples of
26/11 suspects to India.
It also says it cannot be alone held responsible for the
delay in the trial of western Indian city Mumbai attack
accused in a Rawalpindi court and that India should share the
blame for taking almost a year in granting permission to a
Pakistani judicial commission to visit India.
Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said
according to the Pakistan Penal Code and the Act of Evidence,
the only identification of an accused acceptable was the thumb
impression and officially no photograph or voice of any
accused can be taken.
"If I give the samples by any other means by recording
their voice and send it to India, that will be challenged in
Pakistani court and there will be contempt of court on the
investigators and prosecutors," he told PTI in an interview.
Malik said Pakistan government's appeal to allow it to
take voice samples of the accused was rejected by a lower
court and he had discussed the issue with his Indian
counterpart P Chidambaram.
"What is important is to go through the legal channel.
So in the first level in the court, it was rejected -- that
government was not allowed to take samples of voice. Then we
move to the next stage -- the higher court.
"The High Court, where we have appealed against the
order of the lower court to allow the government to take the
samples from the accused enabling us to send it to India," he
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