Indian Evidence Act, 1872
← Indian Evidence Act, 1872
IX — OF WITNESSES · Section 118

Who may testify

Synced on 04 Jul 2026Text as per India Code

All persons shall be competent to testify unless the Court considers that they are prevented from understanding the questions put to them, or from giving rational answers to those questions, by tender years, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind.

Explanation. –– A lunatic is not incompetent to testify, unless he is prevented by his lunacy from understanding the questions put to him and giving rational answers to them.

Judgments on Section 118