Order XIX Rule 5

Redacting or rejecting evidence

Affidavits, in the First Schedule to The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

*[5. Redacting or rejecting evidence.-- A Court may, in its discretion, for reasons to be recorded in writing--

(i) redact or order the redaction of such portions of the affidavit of examination-in-chief as do not, in its view, constitute evidence; or

(ii) return or reject an affidavit of examination-in-chief as not constituting admissible evidence.]

*. Shall be applicable to commercial disputes of a specified value by Act 4 of 2016, s. 16 and the Sch. (w.e.f. 23-10-2015).

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