INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
118. Who may testify.
124. Who may testify.
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INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
118. 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 lunatic is not incompetent to testify, unless he is prevented by his lunacy from
understanding the questions put to him and giving rational answers to them.
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Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
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.
Current law India Code — BSA 2023