INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
158. What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section 32 or 33.
161. What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section 26 or 27.
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INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
158. What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section
32 or 33. ––Whenever any statement, relevant under section 32 or 33, 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.
Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
161. What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under
section 26 or 27.—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.
Current law India Code — BSA 2023