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Section 106 - The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
106. Burden of proof as to particular fact.
The burden of proof as to any particular fact lies on that person who wishes the Court to believe in its existence, unless it is provided by any law that the proof of that fact shall lie on any particular person.
Illustration.
A prosecutes B for theft, and wishes the Court to believe that B admitted the theft to C. A must prove the admission. B wishes the Court to believe that, at the time in question, he was elsewhere. He must prove it.
Related Sections
- Section 95: Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement
- Section 4: Relevancy of facts forming part of same transaction
- Section 103: Saving of provisions of Indian Succession Act relating to wills
- Section 120: Presumption as to absence of consent in certain prosecution for rape
- Section 125: Witness unable to communicate verbally
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