Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam
BSA 169 was IEA 167.
No new trial for improper admission or rejection of evidence.
Carried over
19% of the old wording kept
Old · IEA 1872 · Ch. XI
s. 167
No new trial for improper admission or rejection of evidence
The improper admission or rejection of evidence shall not be ground of itself for a new trial or reversal of any decision in any case, if it shall appear to the Court before which such objection is raised that, independently of the evidence objected to and admitted, there was sufficient evidence to justify the decision, or that, if the rejected evidence had been received, it ought not to have varied the decision. IScu. SCHEDULE ENACTMENTS REPEALED 189***1 184. Omitted by the Repealing Act, 1938 (1 of 1938), S. 2 and Sch. (w.e.f. 26-2-1938). Prior to omission it read as: "SCHEDULE ENACTMENTS REPEALED [See Section 2] Extent of repeal Number Title and Year Stat. 26 For the further regulation of the trial of persons Section thirty-eight so far as it relates to Courts accused of certain offences committed in the East Geo. Indies; for repealing so much of an Act, made in of justice in the East cap. 57. the twenty-fourth year of the reign of hispresent Indies. Majesty (intituled 'An Act for the better regulation andmanagementof the affairs of the East India Company, and of the British possessions in India, and for establishing a court ofjudicature for the more speedy and effectual trial of persons accused of offences committed in the East Indies'), as requires the servants of the East India Company to deliver inventories of their estates and effects; for rendering the laws more effectual againstpersons unlawfully resorting to the East Indies; and for the more easy proof, in certain cases, of deeds and writings executed in Great Britain or India. Section eleven To amend the Law of Evidence and Stat. 14 & so much of section Vic., nineteen as relates to cap. 99. British India. Act XV of To amend the Law of Evidence So much as has not been heretofore repealed. 1852 To amend the Law of Evidence in the Civil Courts of Section nineteen. Act XIX the East India Company in the Bengal Presidency of 1853 So much as has not been For the further improvement of the Law of Evidence Act Il of heretofore repealed. 1855 Section two hundred For simplifying the Procedure of the Courts Act XXV Criminal Judicature not established by Royal Charter and thirty-seven. of 1861 and Act I of The General Clauses' Act, 1868 Sections seven eight." 1868
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New · BSA 2023 · Ch. XI
s. 169
No new trial for improper admission or rejection of evidence.
The improper admission or rejection of evidence shall not be ground of itself for a new trial or reversal of any decision in any case, if it shall appear to the Court before which such objection is raised that, independently of the evidence objected to and admitted, there was sufficient evidence to justify the decision, or that, if the rejected evidence had been received, it ought not to have varied the decision.
Text from India Code