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hearsay evidence is not admissible in evidence. discuss.is there any exception to this rule? what are the requirements? discuss by giving illustration
Hearsay evidence is an out of court statement which is presented in court to prove that the assertions made in it are true. The hearsay rule means that hearsay evidence will not be used in judicial proceedings except in exceptional cases. On the other hand, the definition and exceptions to hearsay evidence have not been explicitly discussed in Qanoon e Shahdat, 1984 (Pakistani law of evidence hereinafter QSO) which causes great difficulty in understanding the nature and scope of this concept. The exception of hearsay evidence is consisted of two Articles of QSO, Article 46 Dying Declaration and Article 19 Doctrine of Res gastae (Statements that are part of the same transaction or incident).
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Hearsay evidence is admissible in the court of law, however, a corroborative evidence is required to authenticate this type of evidence. For Example, a witness claiming to have a knowledge of seeing someone going into the house at the time and place of murder by hearing this from neighbors, now this would require a corroborative evidence like CCTV footage of that person going into that house.
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