Introduction Recently, in Liyakat Ali v State of Himachal Pradesh, the Himachal Pradesh High Court acquitted several accused persons after nearly 15 years of incarceration, terming the prosecution’s failure to conduct a Test Identification Parade (‘TIP’) a ‘serious lapse in investigation’. A TIP is a pre-trial identification procedure in which a witness is asked to identify an accused from among other persons. TIPs are ordinarily conducted at the stage of investigation and s