IEA Section 58 — Facts admitted need not be proved

Summary

If the parties involved in a case, or their representatives, agree to accept a fact as true—either during the hearing or in a signed written agreement before the hearing—that fact does not need to be proven with evidence. Also, if the rules of court pleadings treat a fact as admitted by the way the parties have written their legal arguments, that fact also does not need to be proven. However, the court has the power to decide that even an admitted fact must still be proven through other evidence if it chooses to do so.

Official Text

No fact need to be proved in any proceeding which the parties thereto or their agents agree to admit at the hearing, or which, before the hearing, they agree to admit by any writing under their hands, or which by any rule of pleading in force at the time they are deemed to have admitted by their pleadings;


Provided that the court may, in its discretion, require the facts admitted to be proved otherwise than by such admission.

Related Judgments

• JASPAL SINGH GOSAIN vs CBI — Delhi High Court (2018)
• BALRAJ TANEJA AND ANR. vs SUNIL MADAN AND ANR — Supreme Court of India (1999)
• HARENDRA RAI vs THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS — Supreme Court of India (2023)
• GANNMANI ANASUYA AND ORS. vs PARVATINI AMARENDRA CHOWDHARY AND ORS — Supreme Court of India (2007)
• RAZIA BEGUM vs SAHEBZADI ANWAR BEGUM & OTHERS — Supreme Court of India (1958)

Old <-> New Code Mapping

• BSA §53 — Facts admitted need not be proved