Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 · Chapter II: Relevancy of Facts · Admissions
Section 20: When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant
In plain words
Oral admissions about what a document contains are not relevant unless the party offering them shows they are entitled to give secondary evidence of the document, or the genuineness of a produced document is in question.
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Official text
Oral admissions as to the contents of a document are not relevant, unless and until the party proposing to prove them shows that he is entitled to give secondary evidence of the contents of such document under the rules hereinafter contained, or unless the genuineness of a document produced is in question
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