Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
BSA Section 91
Presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced
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BSA Section 91 deals with presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced and replaces Evidence Act 89.
Bare act text — BSA 91
91. Presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced.
The Court shall presume that every document, called for and not produced after notice to produce, was attested, stamped and executed in the manner required by law.
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What was BSA Section 91 in the Evidence Act?
BSA Section 91 (Presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced) replaces Section 89 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Evidence Act 89 is now BSA 91.
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Nearby BSA sections
- BSA 86 — Presumption as to electronic records and electronic signatures
- BSA 87 — Presumption as to Electronic Signature Certificates
- BSA 88 — Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial records
- BSA 89 — Presumption as to books, maps and charts
- BSA 90 — Presumption as to electronic messages
- BSA 92 — Presumption as to documents thirty years old
- BSA 93 — Presumption as to electronic records five years old
- BSA 94 — Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document
- BSA 95 — Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement
- BSA 96 — Exclusion of evidence to explain or amend ambiguous document