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

Section 163: Testimony to facts stated in document mentioned in section 162

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

A witness may also

testify to facts mentioned in any such document as is mentioned in section 162, although he has no specific recollection of the facts themselves, if he is sure that the facts were correctly recorded in the document.

Illustration.

A book-keeper may testify to facts recorded by him in books regularly kept in the course of business, if he knows that the books were correctly kept, although he has forgotten the particular transactions entered.

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 163.

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