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Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

Section 68, BSA: Proof where no attesting witness found

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 68 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 68Section 69corresponds

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

The section

68. Proof where no attesting witness found.

If no such attesting witness can be found, it must be proved that the attestation of one attesting witness at least is in his handwriting, and that the signature of the person executing the document is in the handwriting of that person

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 68 (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.