called up
and required to examine both the original tracks and those
on the test ground, and thereafter to make his statement.
The magistrate ... test his bona fides. The officer investigating the case
and his assistants shall be allowed no share in the conduct
the test. Tracks found, which
allegedly robbed by the
accused persons was not put on location tracking. Test identification
parade of the accused persons was never conducted in the presence ... link in
the prosecution story regarding how the accused persons were
immediately tracked and apprehended.
In case titled as Dana Yadav @ Dahu & others Vs. State
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of dog tracking, chappal testing, as also recovery of
his diary from the spot of incident
Harwinder Singh@ Pinder And Anr vs State Of Punjab on 1 October, 2019
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crime
test', criminal test' and 'rarest of rare test' (which,
was held to be distinct from the 'balance test ... crime test", "criminal test" and the "R-R test" and
not the "balancing test". To award death
sentence
which the tracking was done. According to the learned Judge in this country a panchanama in respect of the dog tracking would be advisable ... view that the genuineness of the evidence of dog tracking need not necessarily be tested in the restricted terms of the availability or non-availability
place of occurrence and tracking the smell, had caught hold of the hands of appellants during the test parade conducted in the said jail ... adequate training in smell tracking. He also does not say about 'Timmy's past achievement in smell tracking. Hence 'Timmy
concept of dog-tracking evidence over the years and to hold that, undoubtedly, this evidence must pass the test of scrutiny and reliability ... cannot be rigorously tested by a Court cross-examination. In fact in some of the old English cases, the Dog Tracking evidence was sought
while awarding death sentence the „crime test‟ has to be fully
satisfied i.e. 100% and „criminal test‟ should be 0%. In other words, there ... being a menace
to the society, no previous track record etc., then the „criminal test‟ may
favour the accused to avoid capital punishment. Even
Budha vs State on 4 November, 2015
Author: R. K. Gauba
Bench: Sanjiv Khanna , R
