ENACTMENT NO 1 OF 1990
SYARIAH COURTS EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 1990

PART I - RELEVANCY
CHAPTER 2 - RELEVANCY OF FACTS
Statements by persons who cannot be called as witnesses



Section 20. Cases in which statement of relevant fact by person who is dead or cannot be found, ect., is relevant

(1) Statements, written or verbal, of relevant facts made by a person who is dead or who cannot be found, or who has become incapable, of giving evidence, or whose attendance cannot be procured without an amount of delay or expense which under the circumstances of the case appears to the Court unreasonable, are themselves relevant facts in the following cases:-
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(2) Evidence of such statement is inadmissible m cases of hudud and qisas.

(3) Evidence of such statement shall be given by at least two male witnesses or of lone male and two female witnesses.

(4) Evidence of such statement is inadmissible in the following cases-




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