IEA Section 39 — What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers

Summary

If a statement that is being used as evidence is only part of a longer statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book, or series of letters or papers, the court will decide how much of that larger material must be presented. Only the parts that the court considers necessary for fully understanding the meaning and effect of the statement, and the circumstances in which it was made, should be given as evidence. No more than that should be presented.

Official Text

When any statement of which evidence is given forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a document which forms part of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or a connected series of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of the statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers as the Court considers necessary in that particular case to the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the circumstances under which it was made.

Related Judgments

• SUSHIL ANSAL; THRU : MR.RAM JETHMALANI, SR.ADVOCATE WITH PT. R.K. NAS vs STATE OF DELHI THRU CBI, THRU : MR. P.P.MALHOTRA, ASG, MR. HARISH SAL — Delhi High Court (2008)
• South End Apartments; Eros Garden Colony; Surajkund, Faridabad. vs State Of Maharashtra, ] — Bombay High Court (Mumbai Principal Seat) (2019)
• ARJUN PANDITRAO KHOTKAR vs KAILASH KUSHANRAO GORANTYAL AND ORS — Supreme Court of India (2020)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BSA §33 — What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers