Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Evidence of relative and close relation. - The evidence of relative if i! is otherwise reliable and trustworthy cannot be rejected on the ground of mere relationship. A relationship of witness is no ground for not acting on his testimony if it is otherwise reliable in the sense that the witness was otherwise a competent witness who could be expected to be near about the place of occurrence and could have seen what happened. Where a close relation of the complainant appears as defence witness it cannot be presumed that he is invariably actuated by some feelings of animosity towards complainant.