2021 SCMR 92.
Test identification parade---Venue---
Whether a police station was an appropriate place holding a test identification parade---
The law did not designate any specific place to undertake the exercise of test identification parade---Combined reading of R. 26.32 of the Police Rules, 1934 with Art. 22 of the Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984, did not restrict the prosecution to necessarily undertake the exercise of test identification parade within the jail precincts.
Test identification parade--
---Omission of assailants' features in the crime report---Whether such omission was a ground to discard the test identification parade--
Part C of the High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders Volume-III did not stipulate any such condition---In the natural course of events, in an extreme crisis situation, encountered all of a sudden, even by a prudent onlooker with average nerves, it would be rather unrealistic to expect meticulously comprehensive recollection of minute details of the episode or photographic description of events or the assailants---Broad identification of the assailants, in the absence of any apparent malice or motive to substitute them with the actual offenders, was sufficient to qualify the requirement of Art. 22 of the Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984.
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