Child Witnesses

The evidence of a child has to be evaluated carefully, as he/she  is an easy prey to tutoring. The law recognises the child as a competent witness but a child particularly at his/her tender age, who is unable to form a proper opinion about the nature of the incident because of immaturity of understanding, is not considered by the court to be a witness whose sole testimony can be relied upon without other corroborative evidence. The evidence of a child is required to be evaluated carefully because he/she is an easy prey to tutoring. Therefore, the court always looks for adequate corroboration from other evidence to his testimony.