Section 20: When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant

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 20 of the BSA, apart from the case where the genuineness of a document produced is in question, oral admissions as to the contents of a document are not relevant unless and until:

   A.the opposite party has consented in writing to the oral admission being proved at the trialB.the document in question is shown to be a public document kept in proper official custodyC.the party proposing to prove them shows that he is entitled to give secondary evidence of its contentsD.the admission was made in the presence of the Court during the same proceeding and recorded
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