Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023–Sec. 157 [ Corresponding Secs. 154 of Evidence Act, 1872 ]–Declaration of a witness to be a hostile witness–Legal aspects–Small and insignificant omissions cannot be the basis for treating the witness hostile, and the Court before exercising its discretion, must scan and weigh the circumstances properly and ought not to exercise its discretion in a casual routine manner.
