Section 6 embodies the rule of admission evidence relating to what is commonly known Res Gestae. Acts or declarations accompanying the transaction or the facts in issue are treated as part of the res gestae and admitted as evidence. The obvious ground for admission of such evidence is the spontaneity and immediary of the act or declaration in question.
E.g - A sues B for libel contained in a latter forming part of a correspondence. Letters between the parties relating to the subject out of which the libel arose, and forming part of the correspondence in which it is contained, are relevant facts, though they do not contain the libel itself.
It is based on the belief that because certain statements are made naturally, spontaneously, and without deliberation during the course of an event, they carry a high degree of credibility and leave little room for misunderstanding or misinterpretation. The doctrine held that such statements are more trustworthy than other second hand statements and therefore should be admissible as evidence.
In Gentela Vijayvardhan Rao And Anr v. State of Andhra Pradesh, the appreciable interval between the act of carnage and magistrate's recording the statement was found inadmissible under res gestae.
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