Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
BSA Section 155
Questions intended to insult or annoy
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BSA Section 155 deals with questions intended to insult or annoy and replaces Evidence Act 152.
Bare act text — BSA 155
155. Questions intended to insult or annoy.
The Court shall forbid any question which appears to it to be intended to insult or annoy, or which, though proper in itself, appears to the Court needlessly offensive in form.
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What was BSA Section 155 in the Evidence Act?
BSA Section 155 (Questions intended to insult or annoy) replaces Section 152 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Evidence Act 152 is now BSA 155.
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Nearby BSA sections
- 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 154 — Indecent and scandalous questions
- 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
- BSA 160 — Former statements of witness may be proved to corroborate later testimony as to same fact