STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. RANJITA LADHURAM

JUDGEMENT

(1.) A Division Bench of this Court has referred the following points for decision by the Full Bench :

(2.) FOR the purpose of deciding the points under reference, it is but necessary to quote the relevant observation made in Dhokalsingh's case ILR (1953) 3 Raj 762, (supra), which has been quoted also in the order of reference itself which has presented a source of doubt and difficulty. The passage runs as follows :-

(3.) AT this stage it is important to remember the purpose which test identification actually serves in the investigation of a crime or in the trial of the criminal. The evidence of personal identification in Court has been the subject-matter of numerous conflicting decisions which peculiarly attracts the warning given by the supreme Court of the United States in Aldridge v. United States, (1930) 283 US 308, and which has been adopted with approval in other authoritative pronouncements in India :