Vandana, Research Scholar, Department of Law, Shri Venkateshwara University, Gajraula, Uttar Pradesh, India Dr. Akanksha Garg Agarwal, Research Supervisor, Department of Law, Shri Venkateshwara University, Gajraula, Uttar Pradesh, India ABSTRACT In India, witness testimony is crucial to the functioning of the adversarial criminal justice system, yet circumstances of threatening harassment, loss of income, and sheer disregard of witnesses have led to the normalisation of the practice of...