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Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

Section 30, BSA: Relevancy of statements in maps, charts and plans

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 30 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, in the Act's own words, with the Evidence Act provision it replaces.

What it replaces

BSA provisionEvidence Act provisionRelation
Section 30Section 36corresponds

From the Bureau of Police Research and Development's official comparison summary (source below). The whole table: Evidence Act to BSA.

The section

30. Relevancy of statements in maps, charts and plans.

Statements of facts in issue or relevant facts, made in published maps or charts generally offered for public sale, or in maps or plans made under the authority of the Central Government or any State Government, as to matters usually represented or stated in such maps, charts or plans, are themselves relevant facts

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

  1. India Code: Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, section 30 (read 1 September 2026)
  2. Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BSA to Evidence Act (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.