This is a real-world medical entrance exam question, please give the true answer based on the question and selection. Topic name: Indian Legal system, Legal sections & Cou procedures, Subject name: Forensic Medicine
Oral evidence is more impoant than written testimony as: 
Select and explain. 
A. Oral evidence cannot be cross-examined, B. Oral evidence can be cross-examined, C. Documentary evidence requires no proof, D. None
B: Oral evidence can be cross-examined
Answer: B: Oral evidence can be cross-examined 
Explanation: Oral evidence is more superior to documentary evidence, as the witness can be cross examined. Doctor's repo is accepted only when he comes and deposes oral evidence in the cou ( S. 45 IEA). Exceptions to oral evidence: Dying declaration. Expe opinion given in a book or treatise. Evidence of doctor recorded in a lower Cou. Evidence by witness in a previous judicial proceedings. Repos of chemical examiner, explosives expe, fingerprint expe, serologist etc. Public records like death, bih ceificate. Hospital records