Section 159 - Questions tending to corroborate evidence of relevant fact, admissible

Section 159 of Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023 permits questions to corroborate evidence of relevant facts through observed circumstances.

Section 159 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, allows for the admissibility of questions that corroborate evidence of a relevant fact. If a witness is intended to be corroborated, they may be questioned about other circumstances observed at or near the time or place of the relevant fact. The court must believe that proving these circumstances would support the witness's testimony regarding the relevant fact. For example, an accomplice's account of a robbery may be corroborated by independent evidence of unrelated incidents he observed during the event.