Section 140: Order of production and examination of witnesses

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

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1. 1. Under Section 140 of the BSA, the order in which witnesses are produced and examined is regulated by:

   A.procedural law and practice, and in the absence of such law, the Court's discretionB.rules framed by the High Court under the BSA for each class of civil and criminal caseC.the discretion of the Court alone, whatever the law of civil or criminal procedure saysD.the party who calls them, whose order of choice the Court cannot alter in any case
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