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PART IV PRODUCTION AND EFFECT OF EVIDENCE · CHAPTER VII OF THE BURDEN OF PROOF

Section 118: Presumption as to dowry death

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

When the question is whether a person has committed the dowry death of a woman and it is shown that soon before her death, such woman had been subjected by such person to cruelty or harassment for, or in connection with, any demand for dowry, the Court shall presume that such person had caused the dowry death.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, “dowry death” shall have the same meaning as in section 80 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

Corresponding Evidence Act provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

Questions on this section

4 questions in 17 of our papers cite Section 118.

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