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The Indian Evidence Act,1872
Section 90-134

Section 90

Presumption as to documents thirty years old

Section 90-A

Presumption as to electronic records five year old

Section 91

Evidence of terms of contracts, grant and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document

Section 92

Exclusion of evidence or oral agreement

Section 93

Exclusion of evidence to explain or amend ambiguous document

Section 94

Exclusion of evidence against application of document of existing facts.

Section 95

Evidence as to document unmeaning in reference to existing facts

Section 96

Evidence as to application of languages which can apply to one only of several persons

Section 97

Evidence as to application of language to one of two sets of facts to neither of which the whole correctly applies

Section 98

Evidence as to meaning of illegible character, etc.

Section 99

Who may give evidence of agreement varying terms of document

Section 100

Saving of provisions of India Succession Act relating to Wills

Section 101

Burden of Proof

Section 102

On whom burden of proof lies

Section 103

Burden of proof as to particular fact

Section 104

Burden of proving fact to be proved to make evidence admissible

Section 105

Burden of proving that case of accused comes within exceptions

Section 106

Burden of proving fact specially within knowledge

Section 107

Burden of proving death of person known to have been alive within thirty years

Section 108

Burden of proving that person is alive who has not been heard of for seven years

Section 109

Burden of proof as to relationship in the case of partners, landlord and tenant, principal and agent

Section 110

Burden of proof as to ownership

Section 111

Proof of good faith in transactions where one party is in relation of active confidence

Section 111-A

Presumption as to certain offences

Section 112

Birth during marriage, conclusive proof of legitimacy

Section 113

Proof of cession of territory

Section 113-A

Presumption as to abatement of suicide by a married women

Section 113-B

Presumption as to dowry death

Section 114

Court may presume existence of certain facts

Section 114-A

Presumption as to absence of consent in certain prosecutions for rape

Section 115

Estoppel

Section 116

Estoppel of tenant and of license of person in possession

Section 117

Estoppel of acceptor of bill of exchange, bailee or licensee

Section 118

Who may testify

Section 119

Dumb witnesses

Section 120

Parties to civil suit, and their wives or husbands - Husband or wife of person under criminal trial

Section 121

Judges and Magistrate

Section 122

Communications during marriage

Section 123

Evidence as to affairs of State

Section 124

Official communications

Section 125

Information as to commission of offences

Section 126

Professional communications

Section 127

Section 126 to apply to interpreters etc.

Section 128

Privilege not waived by volunteering evidence

Section 129

Confidential communication with Legal Advisers

Section 130

Production of title-deeds of witness, not a party

Section 131

Production of documents which another person, having possession, could refuse to produce

Section 132

Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate

Section 133

Accomplice

Section 134

Number of witness

Section 124- Official communications

No public officer shall be compelled to disclose communications made to him in official confidence, when he considers that the public interests would suffer by the disclosure.

The Indian Evidence Act,1872

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The Indian Evidence Act,1872
Section 124

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