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Showing posts with label test identification parade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label test identification parade. Show all posts
Wednesday, 27 May 2026

Arrest Memo Mentioned Murder Offence Even Before Body Was Recovered : Supreme Court Upholds Acquittals

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 The High Court has, in our considered opinion, rightly doubted the prosecution case insofar as the alleged recovery of the dead body at the...

Omission To Conduct TIP Of Recovered Articles Material When Case Is Based Solely On Recoveries: Supreme Court Acquits Murder Convict

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Furthermore, another very crucial missing link in the prosecution case that it failed to conduct the Test Identification Parade(TIP) of the ...
Saturday, 18 April 2026

Supreme Court: Under which circumstances Test identification Parade of accused becomes unreliable?

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  Circumstance Six: Test Identification Parade 38. The investigating authorities conducted a test identification parade - asking PW-5 to ide...

Supreme Court Guidelines Regarding procedure to be followed regarding DNA evidence from the point of collection to the logical end, i.e., conviction or acquittal of the Accused,

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 This lack of a common procedure to be followed, is concerning. As such, we issue the following directions which shall be followed hencefort...
Monday, 16 February 2026

Supreme Court:Dock identification without prior TIP is weak/unreliable, especially when the accused were strangers and the witness had not earlier described their identifying features

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 Demistalkumar(PW-12) was also made to identify the Accused persons in the dock, but that is another story which we shall consider at a late...
Thursday, 5 February 2026

Supreme Court: How should the court appreciate evidence if there is a prosecution allegation regarding robbery by an unknown person?

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 In cases where the FIR is lodged against unknown persons, and the persons made Accused are not known to the witnesses, material collected d...
Wednesday, 31 December 2025

Supreme Court: How to appreciate evidence if FIR is lodged against unknown persons for the offence of robbery or dacoity?

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 In cases where the FIR is lodged against unknown persons, and the persons made Accused are not known to the witnesses, material collected d...
Sunday, 19 October 2025

Supreme Court: 'Dock Identification Without Test Identification Parade Unreliable When Witness Had No Familiarity With Accused'

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 Both PW-3 and PW-4 thus identified the Appellants for the first time in court. No TIP was conducted, even though PW-3 admitted he had never...
Sunday, 14 September 2025

Non-Examination Of Magistrate Who Conducted Test Identification Parade Strikes Severe Blow On Prosecution And Cause Of Justice; Orissa HC Sets Aside Conviction

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Above all, the prosecution has not offered any explanation as to why the Magistrate, who conducted T.I. parade was not examined to prove the...
Sunday, 10 August 2025

Test Identification Parade in Criminal Trials: Evidence Appreciation, Judicial Safeguards & Case-Law Analysis

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  Introduction In criminal trials involving offences such as dacoity and robbery, identification of the accused by the victims or witnesses...

Appreciating Test Identification Parade Evidence and Precautions for Executive Magistrates

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  Key Takeaway: Test Identification Parade (“TIP”) evidence is confirmatory and not substantive ; it serves to corroborate in-court identi...
Wednesday, 29 January 2025

Supreme Court: Victim identifying unknown accused Without Test Identification For First Time During Trial After Many Years Raises Doubts

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 Furthermore, no identification parade has been conducted in the present matter. While identification by a witness in a given case for the f...
Sunday, 22 September 2024

Under which circumstances the court can not convict accused based on her dock identification in absence of prior test identification parade?

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Undisputedly, the test identification parade was not conducted, after the arrest of the appellant, in this crime. The police officials ident...
Monday, 12 August 2024

Supreme court: Confession Recorded By Medical Officer When Accused Were Presented By Police Officers Inadmissible As Evidence

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The trial Court as well as the High Court, placed extensive reliance on the confessions of the Accused Appellants Mohmedfaruk @ Palak Safibh...
Sunday, 27 August 2023

To what extent conduct of accused in relevant even if prosecution has failed to prove his discovery statement U/S 27 of Evidence Act?

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 Even if we have to discard the evidence of discovery on the ground that no independent witnesses were present at the time of discovery, sti...

Whether accused can refuse to participate in test identification parade on the ground that they were shown to the witnesses in advance?

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  Gyan Sudha Misra, J. while disagreeing with H.S. Bedi, J. took the view that it is not open to accused to refuse to participate in the TIP...
Thursday, 15 December 2022

Whether the court can permit test identification parade of seized property after it was released on Supratnama?

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 It has been submitted that briefly the allegations are that the Contractor/consigners-Jai Mata Di Logistics Pvt. Ltd. was carrying the gold...
Wednesday, 2 February 2022

When court should not rely on identification of accused by victim before court if test identification parade was not conducted?

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 It is also pertinent to note that PW2 did not know the Appellant and that she had identified him only as a painter. No test identification ...
Friday, 31 December 2021

Whether colloquial variation in describing the accused render the identification of accused unreliable?

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 In the above context, the contention of the appellant’s counsel that the supplementary statements identifying the accused by name were not ...
Sunday, 19 September 2021

Bombay HC: Precaution which court should take in conduct of test identification Parade

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    It is well settled that the evidence of Test Identification Parade is  not substantive evidence. The object of conducting Test Identific...