IEA Section 132: Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate
Indian Evidence Act, 1872 · Chapter 9: Witnesses
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA).
¶A witness shall not be excused from answering any question as to any matter relevant to the matter in issue in any suit or in any civil or criminal proceeding, upon the ground that the answer to such question will criminate, or may lend directly or indirectly to criminate, such witness, or that it will expose, or tend directly or indirectly to expose, such witness to a penalty or forfeiture of any kind:
¶ Proviso.—Provided that no such answer, which a witness shall be compelled to give, shall subject him to any arrest or prosecution, or be proved against him in any criminal proceeding, except a prosecution for giving false evidence by such answer.
Study: explanations and related material
Now BSA 137 (corresponding section). IEA → BSA converterSource: BPR&D BSA–IEA corresponding section table (UP Police, 2024-07-03), p14
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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
- 123. Evidence as to affairs of State
- 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
- 133. Accomplice
- 134. Number of witnesses