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Section 146 - The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
146. Leading questions.
(1) Any question suggesting the answer which the person putting it wishes or expects to receive, is called a leading question.
(2) Leading questions must not, if objected to by the adverse party, be asked in an examination-in-chief, or in a re-examination, except with the permission of the Court.
(3) The Court shall permit leading questions as to matters which are introductory or undisputed, or which have, in its opinion, been already sufficiently proved.
(4) Leading questions may be asked in cross-examination.
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- Section 87: Presumption as to Electronic Signature Certificates
- Section 51: Fact judicially noticeable need not be proved
- Section 110: Burden of proving death of person known to have been alive within thirty years
- Section 75: Certified copies of public documents
- Section 133: Privilege not waived by volunteering evidence
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- Repealing and Amending Act, 2019
- Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Act, 2023
- Telecommunications Act, 2023
- National Capital Territory of Delhi (Recognition of Property Rights of Residents in Unauthorised Colonies) Act, 2019
- Central Goods and Services Tax (Extension to Jammu and Kashmir) Act, 2017
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