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Section 124 in THE BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023 – BSA

CHAPTER IXOF WITNESSESWho may testify.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 ra…

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Section 124 in THE BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023 – BSA

CHAPTER IX

OF WITNESSES

Who may testify.

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.—A 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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