No public officer shall be compelled to disclose communications made to him in official confidence, when he considers that the public interests would suffer by the disclosure.
PART IV PRODUCTION AND EFFECT OF EVIDENCE · CHAPTER IX OF WITNESSES
Section 130: Official communications
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 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
1 question in 5 of our papers cite Section 130. Try these from the free papers:
1. Consider the following statements regarding Section 94 of the BNSS: 1. Only a Court, and not a police officer, may require the production of a document under this section. 2. A person required merely to produce a document is deemed to have complied if he causes it to be produced instead of attending personally. 3. A summons under this section can compel production of a document notwithstanding Sections 129 and 130 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?