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Section 124 - The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Chapter IX
Of Witnesses
124. Who may testify.
All persons shall be competent to testify unless the Court considers that they are prevented from understanding the questions put to them, or from giving rational answers to those questions, by tender years, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind.
Explanation.-A person of unsound mind is not incompetent to testify, unless he is prevented by his unsoundness of mind from understanding the questions put to him and giving rational answers to them.
Related Sections
- Section 79: Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence, etc
- Section 151: Court to decide when question shall be asked and when witness compelled to answer
- Section 159: Questions tending to corroborate evidence of relevant fact, admissible
- Section 37: Judgments, etc., other than those mentioned in sections 34, 35 and 36 when relevant
- Section 104: Burden of proof
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