ISSUE:
Whether the three test identification parade conducted by the police and the lack of other forms of evidence sufficient to prove the guilt of the accused?
RULE:
Section 9 – This section deals with the identification of an accused by the witnesses and how the same can be a substantive piece of evidence when a test identification parade is conducted, and the witness corroborates that in court.
Section 27 -The basic idea embedded in Section 27 of the Evidence Act is the doctrine of confirmation by a subsequent event. Some discoveries made by the police on the basis of the accused's statement can corroborate the statement that he gave to the police.