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PART IV PRODUCTION AND EFFECT OF EVIDENCE · CHAPTER X OF EXAMINATION OF WITNESSES

Section 146: Leading questions

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

(1) Any question suggesting the answer which the person putting it wishes or expects to receive, is called a leading question.

(2) Leading questions must not, if objected to by the adverse party, be asked in an examination-in-chief, or in a re-examination, except with the permission of the Court.

(3) The Court shall permit leading questions as to matters which are introductory or undisputed, or which have, in its opinion, been already sufficiently proved.

(4) Leading questions may be asked in cross-examination.

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

3 questions in 11 of our papers cite Section 146.

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