Batuk Lal's Law Of Evidence

Central Law Agency The Law of Evidence by Batuk Lal Edition 2023

Description

“The law of evidence occupies a pivotal role in the effective functioning of the judicial system as the existence of substantive rights can only be established by relevant and admissible evidence. It lays down the quintessential aspects of judicial investigation for the effective administration of justice. With rapid advances in diverse fields of life, human relations have undergone an unforeseen transformation, presenting new conflicts and controversies. The law of evidence must therefore regularly groom itself for facing the emerging developments which pose unprecedented problems in the collection of evidence and proof of facts. Over the years, the Courts through judicial precedents and diverse case law have enriched the lexicon of the law of evidence. Ratanlal & Dhirajlal’s Law of Evidence is one of the country’s most relied on and respected titles and has been in print for almost a century. The sheer fact that the book has gone through many editions, stands testimony to its intrinsic worth and scholastic wealth. This book is invaluable for practicing lawyers, law students, police trainees and officers, law universities, judicial academies, legal departments, Judges, and Institutional libraries.

As a revising author, I feel pleasure to place twenty second edition of Batuk Lal’s The Law of Evidence, a legal classic, for the law students, P.C.S. (J.), A.P.O. and HJ.S. examinees. With the inflow of cases decided by judiciary, it is difficult to limit the size of the book but in the interest of the students only important cases have been discussed to avoid the bulk. Some of the cases given in this edition are as follows : In Sheikh Sintha Madhar alias Jaffer alias Sintha v. State, AIR 2016 SC 1844, the Supreme Court held—There is no invariable rule that the two accused persons cannot be made part of the same Test Identification Parade. Joint Test Identification Parade does in no manner affect the validity of Test Identification Parade. The purpose of the Test Identification Parade is that the investigation is going on the right track and is merely corroborative evidence. In State of U.P. v. Sunil, AIR 2017 SC 2154, the Supreme Court held—There can be no conviction founded on the sole circumstance of recovery of weapon and other articles if the basic foundation of prosecution crumbles down by not connecting the accused with the incident in question.
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Contents
Part I : Relevancy of Facts
1. Preliminary
2. Of the Relevancy of Facts
Part II : On Proof
3. Facts which need not be proved
4. Of oral Evidence
5. Of Documentary evidence
6. Of the exclusion of Oral by Documentary Evidence
Part III : Production and Effect of Evidence
7. Of the Burden of Proof
8. Estoppel
9. Of Witnesses
10. Of the Examination of Witnesses
11. Of Improper admission and Rejection of Evidence
The Schedule (Repealed)