Annotated comparison of Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, and The Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Published by Project 39A, National Law University, Delhi.
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2024

Annotated Comparison: Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (‘BSA’) and Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (‘IEA’)

Criminalisation & Punishment

In the second installment of our annotated comparisons of India's new criminal laws, we compared the proposed Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 with the current provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

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Process

  • The First Section is a tabular comparison of the sections in the BSA against the corresponding provisions in the IEA
  • The Second Section annotates the BSA and highlights text wherever:

(a) Text is borrowed from the IEA 

(b) Changes are made to the text in the IEA

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