Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)

6. Motive, preparation and previous or subsequent conduct. (1) Any fact is relevant which shows or constitutes a motive or preparation for any fact in issue or relevant fact. (2) The conduct of any party, or of any agent to any party, to any suit or proceeding, in reference toKEEP READING

Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)

5. Facts which are occasion, cause or effect of facts in issue or relevant facts. Facts which are the occasion, cause or effect, immediate or otherwise, of relevant facts, or facts in issue, or which constitute the state of things under which they happened, or which afforded an opportunity forKEEP READING

Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)

Closely connected facts 4. Relevancy of facts forming part of same transaction. Facts which, though not in issue, are so connected with a fact in issue or a relevant fact as to form part of the same transaction, are relevant, whether they occurred at the same time and place orKEEP READING

Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)

PART II CHAPTER II – RELEVANCY OF FACTS 3. Evidence may be given of facts in issue and relevant facts. Evidence may be given in any suit or proceeding of the existence or non-existence of every fact in issue and of such other facts as are hereinafter declared to beKEEP READING

Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)

2. Definitions. (1) In this Adhiniyam, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) “Court” includes all Judges and Magistrates, and all persons, except arbitrators, legally authorised to take evidence; (b) “conclusive proof” means when one fact is declared by this Adhiniyam to be conclusive proof of another, the Court shall, onKEEP READING

Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA)

PART I CHAPTER I – PRELIMINARY 1. Short title, application and commencement. (1) This Act may be called the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. (2) It applies to all judicial proceedings in or before any Court, including Courts-martial, but not to affidavits presented to any Court or officer, nor to proceedingsKEEP READING