Leading questions
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Summary
Questions that suggest the answer the questioner wants are called leading questions. If the opposite party objects, such questions cannot be asked in examination-in-chief or in re-examination unless the Court permits. The Court may allow them for introductory or undisputed matters, or where the fact is already proved. Leading questions are allowed in cross-examination.
Example
Priya, a shopkeeper, is giving evidence and during examination-in-chief the questioner asks, "You sold rice to Arjun that day, didn't you?" The defence objects as leading; the Court will bar the question unless it permits it because the fact is introductory, undisputed, or already proved. The same question would be allowed in cross-examination.
Bare Act
Enacted text(1) Any question suggesting the answer which the person putting it wishes or expects to receive, is called a leading question.
(2) Leading questions must not, if objected to by the adverse party, be asked in an examination-in-chief, or in a re-examination, except with the permission of the Court.
(3) The Court shall permit leading questions as to matters which are introductory or undisputed, or which have, in its opinion, been already sufficiently proved.
(4) Leading questions may be asked in cross-examination.
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