General introduction and Relevancy of Facts (ss. 1-55) and relevant definitions under Information Technology (Amendment) Act 2008

Your friend says she was at the Vashi station at 7 pm when the bag was stolen. Another friend says you are the type who would do such a thing. A third says he heard a stranger shout that you ran away. A court cannot treat all three statements alike. Some of them help it decide the dispute and some are only noise. The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 is the law that sorts one from the other, and Chapter II, sections 3 to 50, is where the sorting rules sit.

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Section 3 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 allows evidence only of facts in issue and of the facts the Adhiniyam itself declares relevant, and Chapter II (ss.3-50) is the list of those relevant facts.

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