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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 70: Proof when Attesting witness denies execution
- Section 23: Confession to police officer
- Section 60: Cases in which secondary evidence relating to documents may be given
- Section 152: Question not to be asked without reasonable grounds
- Section 83: Presumption as to collections of laws and reports of decisions
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