Section 138 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 is related to

Section 138 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (formerly Section 133 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, which referred to uncorroborated testimony) makes an accomplice a competent witness against an accused person and provides that a conviction is not illegal if it proceeds upon the corroborated testimony of an accomplice. The presumption in illustration (b) to Section 119 must also be considered; competence alone does not resolve the reliability of a particular accomplice. The number of witnesses is dealt with in Section 139.