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A person sees a fight and tells the police officer at the scene: "I saw X stab Y just now." This…

The statement can be admitted as part of the same transaction. The eyewitness speaks at the scene immediately after the stabbing, the kind of closely connected declaration…

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A person sees a fight and tells the police officer at the scene: "I saw X stab Y just now." This statement is recorded immediately. Can this statement be treated as substantive evidence during trial?

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The statement can be admitted as part of the same transaction. The eyewitness speaks at the scene immediately after the stabbing, the kind of closely connected declaration covered by section 4 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam. Its significance comes from that connection, not from the officer's act of recording it. A later narrative collected during a police investigation would raise a separate restriction on using investigative statements.

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