Udaya Kumara & Three Others vs. Attorney General – sllr 2014 volume 1 page 387

In the case between Udaya Kumara & Three Others and the Attorney General, the court addressed the issue of whether reliance solely on an identification parade as evidence sufficed for convicting the accused of robbery. It was held that identification evidence, in the absence of corroborating circumstances and given concerns about the reliability and conditions under which the parade was conducted, did not meet the required standard of proof. The principle reaffirmed is that conviction based exclusively on identification at a parade should only be maintained where such evidence is cogent, reliable, and free from doubt. This determination rested on relevant statutory provisions of the Penal Code and Evidence Ordinance, as well as judicial precedent concerning the credibility of identificatio