BLS LLB 5 Years Sem 10 BSA and Law of Evidence Nov 2023 - Evidence 60/40 Question Paper with Solutions

First published on munotes.in on 24 October 2026.

This edition revised 25 October 2026.

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The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 replaced the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 on 1 July 2024, but section 170(2) keeps the old Act for every trial, inquiry or appeal pending on that day, and students repeating the subject still sit the Law of Evidence paper. So every answer here gives both sections. Most provisions kept their words but changed their numbers: section 27 of the old Act is now the proviso to section 23(2), section 32 is section 26, and section 65B is section 63, whose certificate is now in the Schedule. The old sections on cession of territory (113) and on questions by jurors or assessors (166) were dropped. Two changes of substance matter in answers. Section 138 now speaks of a conviction on the "corroborated" testimony of an accomplice, where section 133 said a conviction on uncorroborated testimony is not illegal. And the definitions of document and evidence now include electronic and digital records.