INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
143. When they may be asked.
146. Leading questions.
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IEA Section 143 is incorporated into BSA Section 146(4).
INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
143. When they may be asked. –– Leading questions may be asked in cross-examination.
Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
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.
Current law India Code — BSA 2023