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PART III ON PROOF · CHAPTER III FACTS WHICH NEED NOT BE PROVED

Section 53: Facts admitted need not be proved

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

No fact needs to be proved in any proceeding which the parties thereto or their agents agree to admit at the hearing, or which, before the hearing, they agree to admit by any writing under their hands, or which by any rule of pleading in force at the time they are deemed to have admitted by their pleadings:

Provided that the Court may, in its discretion, require the facts admitted to be proved otherwise than by such admissions.

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

5 questions in 12 of our papers cite Section 53. Try these from the free papers:

  1. 1. Consider the following statements under Section 53 of the BSA: 1. No fact needs to be proved which the parties or their agents agree to admit at the hearing. 2. No fact needs to be proved which, by any rule of pleading in force at the time, the parties are deemed to have admitted by their pleadings. 3. Once a fact is admitted, the Court has no power to require it to be proved otherwise than by the admission. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Practise questions on Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam