BSA · Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Section 154 — Indecent and scandalous questions.
Replaces Evidence Act Section 151.
The Court may forbid any questions or inquiries which it regards as indecent or scandalous, although such questions or inquiries may have some bearing on the questions before the Court, unless they relate to facts in issue, or to matters necessary to be known in order to determine whether or not the facts in issue existed.
Nearby sections
- 151 Court to decide when question shall be asked and when witness compelled to answer.
- 152 Question not to be asked without reasonable grounds.
- 153 Procedure of Court in case of question being asked without reasonable grounds.
- 155 Questions intended to insult or annoy.
- 156 Exclusion of evidence to contradict answers to questions testing veracity.
- 157 Question by party to his own witness.
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