https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289098 The contents of a talaknama could not be proved by witnesses who merely saw it executed and heard it read aloud by another person, because that was hearsay and not direct oral evidence under the Indian Evidence Act. Proof of the document required testimony from a person who had himself read it. On the separate question of oral divorce, the evidence did not reliably show words amounting to a valid pronouncement of divorce or an intention to effect an oral divorce independent of the unproved document. The alleged divorce was therefore not established, and the respondent succeeded. en-us Tue, 30 Nov 1926 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 19 Jul 2021 14:24:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289098 The contents of a talaknama could not be proved by witnesses who merely saw it executed and heard it read aloud by another person, because that was hearsay and not direct oral evidence under the Indian Evidence Act. Proof of the document required testimony from a person who had himself read it. On the separate question of oral divorce, the evidence did not reliably show words amounting to a valid pronouncement of divorce or an intention to effect an oral divorce independent of the unproved document. The alleged divorce was therefore not established, and the respondent succeeded. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 30 Nov 1926 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=289098