Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — a conviction confirmed through final appeal, kept here as a method-of-crime record.
The facts
The accused was alleged to have looted PW-11, inflicting a grievous head injury with an iron rod during the robbery, and was convicted under Section 394 of the Penal Code with ten years’ rigorous imprisonment by the courts below.
On appeal, the Supreme Court noted that a Test Identification Parade had been held, in which the injured victim identified the accused before a Magistrate, and the victim also identified the articles recovered from him.
Given this identification evidence, the Court found no reason to interfere with the conviction and dismissed the appeal.
Status: conviction upheld through final appeal.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: A clean example of a properly conducted Test Identification Parade — where the victim independently identifies both the accused and the recovered property — holding up on appellate scrutiny, in contrast to TIP failures elsewhere in this Docket caused by contamination or delay.
Case details
| Citation | [2008] 13 S.C.R. 1010 |
| Case number | Criminal Appeal No. 1531 of 2008 |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2008-09-25 |
| Module | MO Archive |
Read the full judgment (PDF), sourced from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open dataset (AWS Open Data Registry, CC-BY-4.0).
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