Relatives of dowry death victims not interested witnesses, their testimonies cannot be discarded: Supreme Court

The Court said that a woman facing harassment due to dowry demands is most likely to confide in her immediate family members and discarding their evidence would mean there would no other reliable witnesses.
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The Supreme Court recently ruled that testimonies of family members of the deceased in dowry death cases cannot be discarded for being interested witnesses [State of Karnataka vs MN Basavaraja and ors].

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