What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section 26 or 27
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Summary
When a proved statement by a person is admitted as relevant, the court may allow evidence to contradict or support that statement, or to challenge or confirm the speaker's credibility. This is limited to matters that could have been proved if the speaker had been called as a witness and had denied them on cross-examination.
Example
Priya gave a written account to the police that her neighbour borrowed her drill and did not return it. When that written statement is proved relevant in court, either side can bring evidence to contradict or support Priya's account, or to attack or confirm her credibility, just as if Priya had been called and denied the facts on cross-examination.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhenever any statement, relevant under section 26 or 27, is proved, all matters may be proved either in order to contradict or to corroborate it, or in order to impeach or confirm the credit of the person by whom it was made, which might have been proved if that person had been called as a witness and had denied upon cross-examination the truth of the matter suggested.
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