Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
BSA Section 53
Facts admitted need not be proved
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BSA Section 53 deals with facts admitted need not be proved and replaces Evidence Act 58.
Bare act text — BSA 53
53. Facts admitted need not be proved.
No fact needs to be proved in any proceeding which the parties thereto or their agents agree to admit at the hearing, or which, before the hearing, they agree to admit by any writing under their hands, or which by any rule of pleading in force at the time they are deemed to have admitted by their pleadings: Provided that the Court may, in its discretion, require the facts admitted to be proved otherwise than by such admissions.
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What was BSA Section 53 in the Evidence Act?
BSA Section 53 (Facts admitted need not be proved) replaces Section 58 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Evidence Act 58 is now BSA 53.
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- BSA 49 — Previous bad character not relevant, except in reply
- BSA 50 — Character as affecting damages
- BSA 51 — Fact judicially noticeable need not be proved
- BSA 52 — Facts of which Court shall take judicial notice
- BSA 54 — Proof of facts by oral evidence
- BSA 55 — Oral evidence to be direct
- BSA 56 — Proof of contents of documents
- BSA 57 — Primary evidence
- BSA 58 — Secondary evidence