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Historical Overview of Indian Evidence Act by saurabh887 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document provides historical background on the Indian Evidence Act of 1872. It discusses the judicial systems that existed in ancient India, including the Hindu and Muslim systems of evidence. The Hindu system recognized two types of proof - divine (ordeals) and human (witnesses, documents, possession, inferences). Oral evidence was expected to be direct. Circumstantial evidence and confessions were also permitted. The burden of proof rules under Hindu law were described as modern. The Muslim system wa
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