The Supreme Court of India has set aside a High Court order that permitted the prosecution to examine a minor child as a witness seven years after her mother’s death. The Bench, comprising Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Augustine George Masih, ruled that summoning a child witness at such a belated stage, especially when her…
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Amit Sharma
Amit Sharma is the Content Editor at JurisHour. He has been writing about the Indian legal market. He has covered tax & company litigation stories from the Supreme Court, High Courts and Various Tribunals. Amit graduated from MLSU Law College with B.A.LL.B. and also holds an LL.M. from MLSU, Udaipur, Rajasthan. An Advocate in Taxation, and practised in Tribunals as well as Rajasthan High Court and pursued Masters in Constitutional Law. He started out small with little resources but a big plan to take tax legal education to the remotest locations across India and eventually to the world. His vision is to make tax related legal developments accessible to the masses.
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