Supreme Court of India
Bhagwan Singh and Ors. v. State of M.P.
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We are of the opinion that the child witness was not cross examincd at all by the defence on the point of identification as to whether the accused person are previously known to him or not.
Judgment, page 10
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Criminal Trial: Testimony of child witness-Reliability-Prosecution case that child eye witness to murder-Trial Court rejecting the version of the child due to certain omissions--,-High Court relying on the testimony convicted the accused-On appeal held, since testimony of child witness suffers from infirmities, evidence of child witness is unreliable to convict the· accused-Penal Code, I 860 S.ection 102. Test identification parade-Necessity of-Discussed Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Sections 164 and 313-Extra:judicial confession-Reliability of-Held, when judicial confession is not given
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