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

Section 166: Giving, as evidence, of document called for and produced on notice

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

When a party

calls for a document which he has given the other party notice to produce, and such document is produced and inspected by the party calling for its production, he is bound to give it as evidence if the party producing it requires him to do so.

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 166. Try these from the free papers:

  1. 1. A gives B notice to produce a letter. At the trial A calls for it, B produces it, and A inspects it. Under Section 166 of the BSA:

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