Code), the Magistrate recording such statement shall, notwithstanding anything contained therein, record the statement as spoken by the child:
Provided that the provisions contained ... spoken by the child in the presence of the parents of the child or any other person in whom the child has trust or confidence
statement was recorded. The Investigating Officer prepared the
site plan of the spot, recorded statements of the witnesses and
also got the child victim ... defence, despite opportunity granted to him. We
have also examined the statement of child victim as well the other
prosecution witnesses to satisfy ourselves
This part of the statement was not found in the previous statement of PW-1 ( Section 161 Cr.P.C. statement) as is evident from ... statement of the child witness (PW-5) could have been ignored giving him advantage of being a child, had his statement been plain and simple
under any pressure to
make her statement.
The said statement is seen to be thumb marked by the childs'
mother and signed ... stating to the effect that a statement of
the child under the provisions of Section 164 of the Cr.P.C. was recorded
Code), the
Magistrate recording such statement shall,
notwithstanding anything contained
therein, record the statement as spoken by
the child:
Provided that the provisions contained ... Competency of the child victim to depose evidence
4. Examination of child victim 5. Procedure After
recording the statement. In Murugasamy v. State
child victim.
Secondly, the mother of the child victim deposed that she had
chased the appellant at the instance of the child victim ... child victim.
Fifthly, the neighbour of the child victim deposed that her daughter
had not gone to the bhandara, however, the child victim deposed that
victim-child
was a bubbly child with unclear speech but she was able to make
herself clear. The point that emerges in her statement under ... victim-child (PW-1) when she was
examined in the Court cannot be overlooked since the victim-child in
her initial statement before
regarding the murder of a child, he do not
knew this name despite the fact that child also
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learn music with him. He also ... mental age of any child, which is mental
age/Biological Age x 100. This means that the
petitionerchild has been determined to have
Netar Singh had videographed the process
of recording the statement of the child victim and has
prepared ... child victim.
32.1. As per cross-examination of this witness, the child
victim was brought by the police for her medical examination.
The child victim
convinced about the quality of
the statements and its reliability, base conviction by
accepting the statement of the child witness. The evidence ... measure of caution and prudence.
Some discrepancies in the statement of a child witness
cannot be made the basis for discarding the testimony.
Discrepancies
