Evidence Act, 1872, Section 3

Evidence Act, 1872—Section 3—Evidence of interested witnesses—Held, it is true that chances of exaggeration by the interested witnesses cannot be ruled out—Witnesses are prone to exaggeration—But it is for the trained judicial mind to find out the truth—If the exaggeration is of such nature as to make the witness wholly unreliable, the court would obviously not rely on him—If attendant circumstances and evidence on record clearly support and corroborate the witness, then merely because he is interested witness he cannot be disbelieved because of some exaggeration, if his evidence is otherwise reliable.

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