Which statement is true in relation to a child witness ........

Indian Evidence Act (IEA) 1872 Examination of Witnesses

Which statement is true in relation to a child witness?

A child of tender age can be allowed to testify if he has intellectual capacity understand questions and give rational answers thereto,

A child witness may be easy prey of tutorial and when it is established that he is under the mfluence of tutoring it is not safe to solely rely on his evidence

The law recogmzes the child as a competent witness but a child of a tender age of six years is not considered by the Court to be a witness whose testimony can be relied without other corroborative evidence

All the above statements are true

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Explanation:

a witness is supposed to state the fect on Oath therw is no precise and fixed rule as to the time within which infants are excluded from giving evidence
but their admissibility depends upon the sense and reason they entertain of the danger and impiety to falsehood, which is to be collected from their answers to the questions propounded to them by the courts. but if they are found incompetent to take an oath, their testimony cannot be recived. According to SC adequate corroboration of his testimony must be looked from other evidence. A child of 6years, who become the victim of rape immediately told of thisfact to her mother. the statement to the mother was used as corroborative evidence to the testimony of the child which was otherwise also found to be natural and credible. The evidence of a child is not to be discarded per se. Where the child is found to be competent and his evidence reliable, it can be acted upon..