IEA §129 → BSA §134
Confidential communications with legal advisers
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129. Confidential communications with legal advisers. –– No one shall be compelled to disclose to the Court any confidential communication which has taken place between him and his legal professional adviser, unless he offers himself as a witness, in which case he may be compelled to disclose any such communications as may appear to the Court necessary to be known in order to explain any evidence which he has given, but no others.
134. No one shall be compelled to disclose to the Court any confidential communication which has taken place between him and his legal adviser, unless he offers himself as a witness, in which case he may be compelled to disclose any such communications as may appear to the Court necessary to be known in order to explain any evidence which he has given, but no others.
What changedAI-inferred
Confidential communications with legal advisers.
Old position
IEA 129 is concerned with Confidential communications with legal advisers. Confidential communications with legal advisers
New position
BSA 135 preserves the framework with drafting modernisations as required by the new code. Topic: No witness who is not a party to a suit shall be.. No witness who is not a party to a suit shall be compelled to produce his title-deeds to any property, or any document in virtue of which he holds any property as pledgee or mortgagee or any document the production of which might tend to
BSA 135 (No witness who is not a party to a suit shall be.) preserves the framework of IEA 129. BSA 135 retains the operative provisions in substantively the same form, with drafting modernisation and structural updates as required by the new code. BSA 135 text: No witness who is not a party to...
Editorial deltaAI-indicated (source-linked)
BSA-134 reproduces the operative content of IEA-129 (Confidential communications with legal advisers) with text-overlap 0.93 on the supplied bare-act extracts. The original PRS-chart-based pairing (BSA-135) appears to have been a parsing artifact: text-comparison shows that destination has a different topic. The corrected pairing reflects the actual section-content correspondence. Cross-references may need to be remapped per locked doctrine #11.
Transitional note (repeal & savings)
For matters initiated before 1 July 2024, IEA 129 continues to apply. For matters from that date forward, BSA 135 applies. The transition is governed by the repeal-and-savings clause in the new code (BNS 358 / BNSS 531 / BSA 170 as the case may be); pending proceedings under the old code carry forward unaffected.
Frequently asked
BSA 135 (No witness who is not a party to a suit shall be.). The relationship is classified as substantively_same — see the change-note above for the textual delta.
Sources
- India Code — Indian Evidence Act, 1872
- Gazette of India — Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
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Newlaws.in, IEA §129 → BSA §134 Mapping Page, last updated 2026-05-01, accessed 2026-06-15, https://newlaws.in/iea/129.
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