Identification Parade-Instructions for Magistrates

It is necessary that no undue delay is caused in either summoning the witnesses or in holding the identification parade and the persons required to identify an accused should have had no opportunity of seeing him at any time after the commission of the crime and before the identification parade and further no mistakes are made by them at the time of identification parade or the mistakes made are negligible. It is also proper that the ability of the witness to identify should be tested first without showing him first the suspect or his photograph or furnishing him the data of identification. It should be ascertained from him what are the characteristic features of the person he seeks to identify.