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A witness offers to recount something they heard another person say during an incident. Under section 4…

Section 4 makes a fact relevant when it is so connected with a fact in issue or a relevant fact that it forms part of the same transaction. For a statement, the…

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A witness offers to recount something they heard another person say during an incident. Under section 4 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, what can make the statement relevant?

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Section 4 makes a fact relevant when it is so connected with a fact in issue or a relevant fact that it forms part of the same transaction. For a statement, the circumstances must establish that connection. A later narrative separated from the event does not qualify merely because it concerns the same subject.

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Option A

A later admission of presence does not itself connect the statement to the transaction.

Option B

A statement closely connected with a fact in issue or a relevant fact can form part of the same transaction.

Option C

Recording the statement in an official report does not itself establish its connection to the transaction.

Option D

Consistency with another account does not by itself establish that the statement formed part of the transaction.

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