Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
BSA Section 154
Indecent and scandalous questions
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BSA Section 154 deals with indecent and scandalous questions and replaces Evidence Act 151.
Bare act text — BSA 154
154. Indecent and scandalous questions.
The Court may forbid any questions or inquiries which it regards as indecent or scandalous, although such questions or inquiries may have some bearing on the questions before the Court, unless they relate to facts in issue, or to matters necessary to be known in order to determine whether or not the facts in issue existed.
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What was BSA Section 154 in the Evidence Act?
BSA Section 154 (Indecent and scandalous questions) replaces Section 151 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Evidence Act 151 is now BSA 154.
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Nearby BSA sections
- BSA 149 — Questions lawful in cross examination
- BSA 150 — When witness to be compelled to answer
- BSA 151 — Court to decide when question shall be asked and when witness compelled to answer
- BSA 152 — Question not to be asked without reasonable grounds
- BSA 153 — Procedure of Court in case of question being asked without reasonable grounds
- BSA 155 — Questions intended to insult or annoy
- BSA 156 — Exclusion of evidence to contradict answers to questions testing veracity
- BSA 157 — Question by party to his own witness
- BSA 158 — Impeaching credit of witness
- BSA 159 — Questions tending to corroborate evidence of relevant fact, admissible