Sukhmeet Kaur, BA.L.LB. (Hons.), Institute of Law, Nirma University
Introduction
"A police identification procedure in which a criminal suspect and other physically similar persons are shown to the victim or a witness to determine whether the suspect can be identified as the perpetrator of the crime," according to Black's Law Dictionary, a "identification parade."2. Although quite thorough, this explanation is not sufficient to convey the importance and use of the Test Identification Parade (henceforth TIP) in the Indian context.
Test Identification Parade, on the other hand, describes a process where the accused or object in question is identified in front of the court. The main goal is to confirm that a witness can correctly identify an unidentified person they saw at the scene among a large number of suspects. Before the 2005 amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure (henceforth referred to as the CrPC), the Indian Evidence Act, or CrPC4, lacked any clear regulations dealing to the TIP of an accused person.
As a result of this modification, Section 54A was added, giving the court the power to conduct a TIP on an arrested person if it is thought to be essential. It is a procedure used primarily in criminal situations to identify the defendants in front of the court. Given that it is their duty to identify the accused during the parade, witnesses play a crucial part in the test identification process. The purpose of this procedure is to determine if the witness is able to identify the accused from a group of people. This will demonstrate the witness's credibility in recognising an unidentified individual connected to the offense's circumstances.
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