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PART IV PRODUCTION AND EFFECT OF EVIDENCE · CHAPTER IX OF WITNESSES

Section 134: Confidential communication with legal advisers

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

No one shall be compelled to disclose to the Court any confidential communication which has taken place between him and his legal adviser, unless he offers himself as a witness, in which case he may be compelled to disclose any such communications as may appear to the Court necessary to be known in order to explain any evidence which he has given, but no others.

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 2 of our papers cite Section 134.

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