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Section 103 - Indian Evidence Act, 1872
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
103. 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
78 [(a)] 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 158: What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section 32 or 33
- Section 120: Parties to civil suit, and their wives or husbands, Husbands or wife of person under criminal trial
- Section 9: Facts necessary to explain or introduce relevant facts
- Section 107: Burden of proving death of person known to have been alive within thirty years
- Section 118: Who may testify
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