Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 261 · Decided 23 February 2025
The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Balveer Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 261 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 836
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1669/2012
- Decided
- 23 February 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act Section 106, 118
Headnote
Does the Evidence Act, 1872 prescribe any particular age as a determinative factor to treat a witness to be a competent witness; Does the Evidence Act treat evidence of a child on the same footing as any other witness; Before the evidence of the child witness is recorded, Court to record its opinion and satisfaction that the child witness understands the duty of speaking the truth; Whether the Court should apply s.106 of the Evidence Act in criminal cases with care and caution; Does s.106 of the Evidence Act absolve the prosecution from the duty of proving that
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