How To Ascertain The Competency Of A Child Witness?: SC Explains [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court observed that child witnesses in a criminal case cannot be termed incompetent merely because they were unable to identify the person before whom they were deposing, i.e. they did not know the judge and the lawyers. In P. Ramesh vs. State, two of the prosecution witnesses in a murder case were minor children of the accused and the deceased. The Trial Judge did not...