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Which provision of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 allows a court to infer a marriage from long…

Section 119 allows the court to draw a rebuttable inference from the circumstances. Long cohabitation as spouses can support an inference that the couple married.

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Which provision of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 allows a court to infer a marriage from long cohabitation as spouses and the circumstances of the case?

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Section 119 allows the court to draw a rebuttable inference from the circumstances. Long cohabitation as spouses can support an inference that the couple married.

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Option A

Section 116 concerns the legitimacy of a child in specified circumstances. It does not govern the inference that the couple married.

Option B

Section 44 makes certain opinions on relationships, expressed by conduct, relevant. The general power to draw the inference from cohabitation is in section 119.

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Section 119 is the general provision for inferences based on the usual course of events and human conduct.

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Section 120 concerns absence of consent in certain rape prosecutions.

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