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Home Bare Acts Phrase: answerRepresentation of the People Act, 1951 Section 95
Title: Answering of Criminating Questions and Certificate of Indemnity
State: Central
Year: 1951
.....of any criminal proceeding for perjury in respect of the evidence, be admissible in evidence against in any civil or criminal proceeding. (2) When a certificate of indemnity has been granted to any witness, it may be pleaded by him in any Court and shall be a full and complete defence to or upon any charge under Chapter IXA of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), or Part VII of this Act arising out of the matter to which such certificate relates, but it shall not be deemed to relieve him from any disqualification in connection with an election imposed by this Act or any other law. ______________________ 1. Substituted by Act 47 of 1966, Section 42, for "the Tribunal" w.e.f. 14-12-1966.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Evidence Act 1872 Section 132
Title: Witness Not Excused from Answering on Ground That Answer Will Criminate
State: Central
Year: 1872
A witness shall not be excused from answering any question as to any matter relevant to the matter in issue in any suit or in any civil or criminal proceeding, upon the ground that the answer to such question will criminate, or may lend directly or indirectly to criminate, such witness, or that it will expose, or tend directly or indirectly to expose, such witness to a penalty or forfeiture of any kind: Proviso.Provided that no such answer, which a witness shall be compelled to give, shall subject him to any arrest or prosecution, or be proved against him in any criminal proceeding, except a prosecution for giving false evidence by such answer.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionDisputed Elections (Prime Minister and Speaker) Act, 1977 Section 13
Title: Answering of Criminating Questions and Certificate of Indemnity
State: Central
Year: 1977
.....indemnity from the Authority; and (b) an answer given by a witness to a question put by or before the Authority shall not, except in the case of any criminal proceeding for perjury in respect of the evidence, be admissible in evidence against him in any civil or criminal proceeding. (2) When a certificate of indemnity has been granted to any witness, it may be pleaded by him in any court shall be a full and complete defence to or upon any charge under Chapter IXA of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860.) or Part VII of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951.), arising out of the matter to which such certificate relates, but it shall not be deemed to relieve him from any disqualification in connection with an election imposed by this Act or any other law.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionEducation Act, 1983 Section 27
Title: Alteration of the Answers Written at an Examination, Etc.
State: Karnataka
Year: 1983
No person shall,- (a) save in accordance with the rules or orders governing the conduct of an examination,- (i) change, modify, vary or alter the answers written by an examinee at such examination; or (ii) introduce additional answer books or sheets into an answer script or remove or substitute the answer scripts or any part thereof; (b) intentionally or knowingly,- (i) make incorrect entries in an answer script or marks register or marks card; or (ii) total or retotal wrongly the marks obtained by any candidate; or (iii) feed wrong data to the computer, intending thereby to wrongfully increase or decrease the marks awarded or to be awarded to the examinee at an examination.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Evidence Act 1872 Section 148
Title: Court to Decide when Question Shall Be Asked and when Witness Compelled to Answer
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....seriously affect the opinion of the Courts as to the credibility of the witness on the matter to which testifies; (2) Such questions are improper if the imputation which they convey relates to matters so remote in time, or of such a character, that the truth of the imputation would not affect, or would effect in a slight degree, the opinion of the Court as to the credibility of the witness on the matter to which he testifies; (3) Such questions are improper if there is a great disproportion between the importance of the imputation made against the witness's character and the importance of his evidence; (4) The Court may, if it sees fit, draw, from the witness's refusal to answer, the inference that the answer if given would be unfavourable.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionIndian Evidence Act 1872 Section 153
Title: Exclusion of Evidence to Contradict Answers to Questions Testing Veracity
State: Central
Year: 1872
.....of his previous conviction. Exception 2.If a witness is asked any question tending to impeach his impartiality, and answers it by denying the facts suggested, he may be contradicted. Illustrations (a) A claim against an underwriter is resisted on the ground of fraud. The claimant is asked whether, in a former transaction, he had not made a fraudulent claim. He denies it. Evidence is offered to show that he did make such a claim. The evidence is inadmissible. (b) A witness is asked whether he was not dismissed from a situation for dishonesty. He denies it. Evidence is offered to show that he was dismissed for dishonesty. The evidence is not admissible. (c) A affirms that on a certain day he saw B at Lahore. A is asked whether he himself was not on that day at Calcutta. He denies it. Evidence is offered to show that A was on that day at Calcutta. The evidence is admissible, not as contradicting A on a fact which affects his credit, but as contradicting the alleged fact that B was seen on the day in question in Lahore. In each of these cases the witness might, if his denial was false, be charged with giving false evidence. (d) A is asked whether.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCode of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Section 349
Title: Imprisonment or Committal of Person Refusing to Answer or Produce Document
State: Central
Year: 1973
If any witness or person called to produce a document or thing before a Criminal Court refuses to answer such question as are put to him or to produce any document or thing in his possession or power which the Court requires him to produce, and does not, after a reasonable opportunity has been given to him so to do, offer any reasonable excuse for such refusal such Court may, for reasons to be recorded in writing, sentence him to simple imprisonment or by warrant under the hand of the Presiding Magistrate or Judge commit him to the custody of an officer of the Court for any term not exceeding seven days, unless in the meantime, such person consents to be examined and to answer, or to produce the document or thing and in the event of his persisting in his refusal he may be dealt with according to the provisions of section 345 of section 346.
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionGift-tax Act, 1958 [Cease to Have Effect on or After the 01.10.1998] Section 17A
Title: Penalty for Failure to Answer Questions, Sign Statements, Furnish Information, Allow Inspection, Etc
State: Central
Year: 1958
.....course of any proceedings under this Act, which a gift-tax authority may legally require him to sign; or (c) to whom a summons is issued under sub-section (1) of section 36, either to attend to give evidence or produce books of account or other documents at a certain place and time, omits to attend or produce the books of account or documents at the place and time, he shall pay, by way of penalty, a sum which shall not be less than five hundred rupees but which may extend to ten thousand for each such default or failure: Provided that no penalty shall be impossable under clause (c) if the person proves that there was reasonable cause for the said failure. (2) If a person fails to furnish in due time any statement or information which such person is bound to furnish to the Assessing Officer under section 37, he shall pay, by way of penalty, a sum which shall not be less than one hundred rupees but which may extend to two hundred rupees for every day during which the failure continues: Provided that no penalty shall be imposable under this sub-section if the person proves that there was reasonable cause for the said failure. (3) Any penalty impossable under sub-section.....
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionPresidency Small Cause Courts Act, 1882 Section 87
Title: Imprisonment or Committal of Person Refusing to Answer or Produce Document
State: Central
Year: 1882
If any witness before the Small Cause Court refuses to answer such questions as are put to him, or to produce any document in his possession or power which the Court requires him to produce, and does not offer any reasonable excuse for such refusal, the Court may sentence him to simple imprisonment, or commit him to the custody of an officer of the Court, for any term not exceeding seven days, unless in the mean-time such person consents to answer such questions or to produce such document, as the case may be, after which, in the event of his persisting in his refusal, he may be dealt with according to the provisions of section {Substituted by Act 10 of 1914, section 2 and Schedule I, for "83 or section 85"} [480 or section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (5 of 1898)].
View Complete Act List Judgments citing this sectionCoast Guard Act, 1978 Section 43
Title: False Answers on Enrolment
State: Central
Year: 1978
Any person having become subject to this Act who is discovered to have made at the time of enrolment, a wilfully false answer to any question set forth in the prescribed form of enrolment which has been put to him by the enrolling officer before whom he appears for the purpose of being enrolled, shall, on conviction by a Coast Guard Court, be liable to suffer imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years or such less punishment as is in this Act mentioned.
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