INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
10. Things said or done by conspirator in reference to common design.
8. Things said or done by conspirator in reference to common design.
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INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
10. Things said or done by conspirator in reference to common design.––Where there is reasonable
ground to believe that two or more persons have conspired together to commit an offence or an actionable
wrong, anything said, done or written by any one of such persons in reference to their common intention, after
the time when such intention was first entertained by any one of them, is a relevant fact as against each of the
persons believed to be so conspiring, as well for the purpose of proving the existence of the conspiracy as for
the purpose of showing that any such person was a party to it.
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Illustrations
Reasonable ground exists for believing that A has joined in a conspiracy to wage war against the 1[Government
of India].
The facts that B procured arms in Europe for the purpose of the conspiracy, C collected money in Calcutta for a
like object, D persuaded persons to join the conspiracy in Bombay, E published writings advocating the object in
view at Agra, and F transmitted from Delhi to G at Kabul the money which C had collected at Calcutta, and the
contents of a letter written by H giving an account of the conspiracy, are each relevant, both to prove the existence
of the conspiracy, and to prove A’s complicity in it, although he may have been ignorant of all of them, and
although the persons by whom they were done were strangers to him, and although they may have taken place
before he joined the conspiracy or after he left it.
Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
8. Things said or done by conspirator in reference to common design.—Where there is
reasonable ground to believe that two or more persons have conspired together to commit an offence or
an actionable wrong, anything said, done or written by any one of such persons in reference to their
common intention, after the time when such intention was first entertained by any one of them, is a
relevant fact as against each of the persons believed to be so conspiring, as well for the purpose of
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proving the existence of the conspiracy as for the purpose of showing that any such person was a party to
it.
Illustration.
Reasonable ground exists for believing that A has joined in a conspiracy to wage war against the
State.
The facts that B procured arms in Europe for the purpose of the conspiracy, C collected money in
Kolkata for a like object, D persuaded persons to join the conspiracy in Mumbai, E published writings
advocating the object in view at Agra, and F transmitted from Delhi to G at Singapore the money which
C had collected at Kolkata, and the contents of a letter written by H giving an account of the conspiracy,
are each relevant, both to prove the existence of the conspiracy, and to prove A's complicity in it,
although he may have been ignorant of all of them, and although the persons by whom they were done
were strangers to him, and although they may have taken place before he joined the conspiracy or after he
left it.
Current law India Code — BSA 2023