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Section 103State of Jammu-Kashmir Act

Section 103: Burden of proof as to particular fact

Burden of proof as to particular fact.

- The burden of proof as to any particular fact lies on that person who wishes the Court to believe in its existence, unless it is provided by any law that the proof of that fact shall lie on any particular person.IllustrationA prosecutes B for theft, and wishes the Court to believe that B admitted the theft to C. A must prove the admission.B wishes the Court to believe that at the time in question, he was elsewhere. He must prove it.

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