When there is a question whether an act was accidental or intentional, or done with a particular knowledge or intention, the fact that such act formed part of a series of similar occurrences, in each of which the person doing the act was concerned, is relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Illustrations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) A is accused of burning down his house in order to obtain money for which it is insured. The facts that A lived in several houses successively each of which he insured, in each of which a fire occurred, and after each of which fires A received payment from a different insurance company, are relevant, as tending to show that the fires were not accidental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) A is employed to receive money from the debtors of B. It is A’s duty to make entries in a book showing the amounts received by him. He makes an entry showing that on a particular occasion he received less than he really did receive. The question is, whether this false entry was accidental or intentional. The facts that other entries made by A in the same book are false, and that the false entry is in each case in favour of A, are relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) A is accused of fraudulently delivering to B a counterfeit currency. The question is, whether the delivery of the currency was accidental. The facts that, soon before or soon after the delivery to B, A delivered counterfeit currency to C, D and E are relevant, as showing that the delivery to B was not accidental.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When there is a question whether an act was accidental or intentional, or done with a particular knowledge or intention, the fact that such act formed part of a series of similar occurrences, in each of which the person doing the act was concerned, is relevant. Illustrations. (a) A is accused of burning down his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[139,140,147,138,145,149,142,150,148,141,146,151,111,152,112,143,121,122,113,114,144],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bharatiya-sakshya-adhiniyam-bsa","tag-bhartiya-sakshya-adhiniyam","tag-bhartiya-sakshya-adhiniyam-2023-in-hindi","tag-bhartiya-sakshya-adhiniyam-pdf-download","tag-bsa-2023","tag-bsa-2023-all-sections","tag-bsa-2023-chapters","tag-bsa-2023-pdf","tag-bsa-dhara-list","tag-bsa-section-wise-explanation","tag-bsa-sections-list","tag-bsa-vs-evidence-act-1872","tag-evidence-act","tag-expert-vakil","tag-expert-vakil-bsa","tag-expertvakil","tag-indian-evidence-act-2023","tag-indian-kanoon","tag-indiankanoon","tag-ishan-tathagat","tag-ishantathagat","tag-new-evidence-law-india"],"yoast_head":"\n
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