Parading the eyewitness
Caste atrocity and the Test Identification Parade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6456907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Achintya Anita Gurumurthy (0000-0001-7900-9582, O.P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat Narela Road, Near Jagdishpur Village, Sonipat, Haryana 131001, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-19 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Evidence & Proof (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1365-7127 • E-ISSN: 1740-5572 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13657127241236209 |
| OpenAlex | W4393316443 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The study of the Test Identification Parade (TIP) within Indian evidence law must be contextualised considering the intensification of atrocities and brutalities against oppressed caste communities in India. Despite the existence of a separate law – Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 – to adjudicate caste-based atrocities, its implementation has been met with severe obstacles. Studying how evidentiary practices encounter the Act reveals how the law of evidence, too, participates in the playing out of a caste crime. It is in this regard that the discussion surrounding the Test Identification Parade must be infused with a political character, surfacing the power relations and structural aspects surrounding testimony and memory within crimes. Through the TIP, evidence law constitutes the nodal site upon which the dominant caste police and judiciary collude to deprive marginalised castes of just outcomes. This piece examines the jurisprudence of the TIP in caste atrocities judgments, in order to investigate the various ways in which the law plays out a caste atrocity
Adjudication · Caste · Criminology · Looting · Parade · Political science · Sociology · Tribe · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Law · Law in Society and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Highly cited | No |
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