BSA Section 124: Who may testify
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 · Chapter 9: Of Witnesses
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¶124. All persons shall be competent to testify unless the Court considers that they are prevented from understanding the questions put to them, or from giving rational answers to those questions, by tender years, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind.
¶Explanation.\u2014A person of unsound mind is not incompetent to testify, unless he is prevented by his unsoundness of mind from understanding the questions put to him and giving rational answers to them.
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Replaces IEA 118. IEA → BSA converterSource: BPR&D BSA–IEA corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-07-03)
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Other sections in this chapter
- 125. Witness unable to communicate verbally
- 126. Competency of husband and wife as witnesses in certain cases
- 127. Judges and Magistrates
- 128. Communications during marriage
- 129. Evidence as to affairs of State
- 130. Official communications
- 131. Information as to commission of offences
- 132. Professional communications
- 133. Privilege not waived by volunteering evidence
- 134. Confidential communication with legal advisers
- 135. Production of title-deeds of witness not a party
- 136. Production of documents or electronic records which another person, having possession, could refuse to produce
- 137. Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate
- 138. Accomplice
- 139. Number of witnesses