IEA Section 123: Evidence as to affairs of State
Indian Evidence Act, 1872 · Chapter 9: Witnesses
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA).
¶No one shall be permitted to give any evidence derived from unpublished official records relating to any affairs of State, except with the permission of the officer at the head of the department concerned, who shall give or withhold such permission as he thinks fit.
Study: explanations and related material
Now BSA 129 (corresponding section). IEA → BSA converterSource: BPR&D BSA–IEA corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-07-03), p13
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Other sections in this chapter
- 118. Who may testify
- 119. Dumb witnesses
- 120. Parties to civil suit, and their wives or husbands. Husband or wife of person under criminal trial
- 121. Judges and Magistrates
- 122. Communications during marriage
- 124. Official communications
- 125. Information as to commission of offences
- 126. Professional communications
- 127. Section 126 to apply to interpreters, etc
- 128. Privilege not waived by volunteering evidence
- 129. Confidential communications with legal advisers
- 130. Production of title-deeds of witness not a party
- 131. Production of documents or electronic records which another person, having possession, could refuse to produce
- 132. Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate
- 133. Accomplice
- 134. Number of witnesses