INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
39. What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers.
33. What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers. Judgments of Courts when relevant
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INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
[39. What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document,
electronic record, book or series of letters or papers.––When any statement of which evidence is given
1. Subs. by Act 21 of 2000, s. 92 and the Second Schedule, for “entries in the books of account” (w.e.f. 17-10-2000).
2. Subs. by s. 92 and the Second Schedule, ibid., for “record” (w.e.f. 17-10-2000).
3. Subs. by the A.O. 1948, for “any Government in British India”.
4. Ins. by the A. O. 1950.
5. The original words were “Act of the Governor General of India in Council or of the Governors in Council of
Madras or Bombay, or of the Lieutenant Governor in Council of Bengal, or in a notification of the Government
appearing in the Gazette of India, or in the Gazette of any L.G., or in any printed paper purporting to be the
London Gazette or the Government Gazette of any colony or possession of the Queen, is a relevant fact”. This
was amended first by the Repealing and Amending Act, 1914 (10 of 1914), and then by the A.O. 1937, the A.O.
1948 and the A.O. 1950 to read as above.
6. Subs. by Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and the Schedule, for “an Act of the Legislature of a Part A State or a Part C State”.
7. The “last paragraph” omitted by Act 10 of 1914, s. 3 and the Second Schedule.
8. Subs. by Act 21 of 2000, s. 92 and the Second Schedule, for “s. 39” (w.e.f. 17-10-2000).
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forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a
document which forms part of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or of a connected series
of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of the statement, conversation,
document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers as the Court considers necessary in that
particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the circumstances
under which it was made.]
JUDGMENTS OF COURTS OF JUSTICE WHEN RELEVANT
Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
33. What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document,
electronic record, book or series of letters or papers.—When any statement of which evidence is given
forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a
document which forms part of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or of a connected series
of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of the statement, conversation,
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document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers as the Court considers necessary in that
particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the
circumstances under which it was made.
Judgments of Courts when relevant
Current law India Code — BSA 2023