BSA Section 20 — When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant

Summary

Oral admissions about what a document contains are not considered relevant evidence, unless the person trying to prove those admissions first shows that they are allowed to give secondary evidence of the document's contents under the rules that follow in this Act. They are also relevant if the genuineness of a document that has been produced in court is itself being questioned.

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.

Related Judgments

• OIL & NATURAL GAS CORPORATION LTD. vs SAW PIPES LTD — Supreme Court of India (2003)
• Deepali Santosh Lokhande vs Mr.Santosh Vasantrao Lokhande — Bombay High Court (Mumbai Principal Seat) (2017)
• DEEPTI KAPUR vs KUNAL JULKA — Delhi High Court (2020)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• IEA §22 — When oral admissions as to contents of documents are relevant