ABHIGYAN App: India’s Policing Breakthrough Enabling 35-Second Criminal Identification via Fingerprint System

What Is ABHIGYAN? Amit Shah Launches App That Identifies Criminal Suspects in 35 Seconds | 📰 LatestLY

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has launched ABHIGYAN, a digital policing tool designed to help law enforcement agencies identify criminal suspects within seconds using fingerprint-based verification. The application enables police personnel to match fingerprints against a national database of more than 1.3 crore records, significantly reducing the time required to verify identities and access criminal histories. 📰 What Is ABHIGYAN? Amit Shah Lau…

ABHIGYAN app: India’s policing breakthrough enabling 35-second criminal identification via fingerprint system

New Delhi: India has introduced a major upgrade to its policing and criminal identification capabilities with the launch of the ABHIGYAN mobile application, aimed at dramatically speeding up fingerprint-based suspect verification across the country. The initiative, launched by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, marks a significant step toward digitising and modernising criminal investigations. India Launches ABHIGYAN: Criminals Can Now Be Identifie…

Amit Shah Inaugurates 26th All India Fingerprint Conference 2026, Launches Four NCRB Applications

New Delhi Times Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah addressed the inaugural session of the 26th All India Fingerprint Conference 2026 in New Delhi. During the event, he launched four National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) applications — NCRB-Abhigyan, CrPI, e-Prosecution 2.0 and e-Forensics 2.0. The conference was attended by senior officials, including the Director of the Intelligence Bureau, the Director of NCRB and the Dir…

Abhigyan app for on-the-spot fingerprint checks: Will it stand legal scrutiny?

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday launched the Abhigyan mobile application, developed by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), enabling police and investigating agencies to scan fingerprints of individuals during field checks using portable devices and match them within seconds against the national database. The app, unveiled during the 26th All India Fingerprint Conference 2026 at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Auditorium in …