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PART II · CHAPTER II RELEVANCY OF FACTS · Statements made under special circumstances

Section 31: Relevancy of statement as to fact of public nature contained in certain Acts or notifications

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

When the Court has to form an opinion as to the existence of any fact of a public nature, any statement of it, made in a recital contained in any Central Act or State Act or in a Central Government or State Government notification appearing in the respective Official Gazette or in any printed paper or in electronic or digital form purporting to be such Gazette, is a relevant fact.

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 8 of our papers cite Section 31.

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