BSA · Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Section 161 — What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section 26 or 27.
Replaces Evidence Act Section 158.
Whenever any statement, relevant under section 26 or 27, is proved, all matters may be proved either in order to contradict or to corroborate it, or in order to impeach or confirm the credit of the person by whom it was made, which might have been proved if that person had been called as a witness and had denied upon cross-examination the truth of the matter suggested.
Nearby sections
- 158 Impeaching credit of witness.
- 159 Questions tending to corroborate evidence of relevant fact, admissible.
- 160 Former statements of witness may be proved to corroborate later testimony as to same fact.
- 162 Refreshing memory.
- 163 Testimony to facts stated in document mentioned in section 162.
- 164 Right of adverse party as to writing used to refresh memory.
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