CHAPTER II.––OF THE RELEVANCY OF FACTS · HOW MUCH OF A STATEMENT IS TO BE PROVED

Section 39: What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers

The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (repealed)

Repealed by the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (47 of 2023) with effect from 1 July 2024.

¹[When any statement of which evidence is given forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a document which forms part of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or of a connected series of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of the statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers as the Court considers necessary in that particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the circumstances under which it was made.]

Footnotes in the official text

1.Subs. by Act 21 of 2000, s. 92 and the Second Schedule, for “s. 39” (w.e.f. 17-10-2000).

Now in the BSA

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

39. What evidence to be given when statement from part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers.

BSA 33

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1. Under Section 33 of the BSA, when a statement of which evidence is given forms part of a longer statement, a conversation or a connected series of letters, evidence is to be given of:

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