NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY ODISHA, CUTTACK

EVIDENCE LAW

PROJECT ON

“RELEVANCY OF CHARACTER”

SUBMITTED TO

MS. NANDITTA BATRA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW

SUBMITTED BY

BHAVISHYA MEENA
16BBA017
(5 SEMESTER,3RD YEAR)
TH

WORDS COUNT (EXCLUDING FOOTNOTE)=5300

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 BIBLIOGRAPHY

ARTICLES
1. Character as Evidence under the Indian Law’ (MyAdvo.in)
 Section 52 to 55 of Indian Evidence Act deals with the character as evidence & relevance
of character evidence. Thus to understand relevance of character Indian Evidence Act one
has to study the important sections of Indian Evidence Act. Explanation to Section 55 of
evidence act states that the word character includes disposition along with reputation of a
person.
2. ‘Character Evidence and the Role It Plays in Court’ (Lawteacher.net, October 2017)
 The character and conduct of people play a very important role in our day to day lives,
people act and react and go about their daily lives ...
3. ‘Relevancy of Character Evidence in Civil and Criminal Case’ (Legal Bites - Law and
Beyond, 15 January 2018)
 This article is used to define the word 'Character' which denotes the collective qualities or
characteristics especially mental and moral that distinguish a person or thing.
4. ‘Relevancy of Character in Civil and Criminal Cases Section 52, 53, 54 and 55 of The
Indian Evidence Act, 1872’
5. ‘Character of a Person in Civil and Criminal Cases When Relevant and When Irrelevant’
(shareyouressay, 3 June 2013)
 Character when relevant (Ss. 52-55): In civil cases, a party’s character cannot be proved
for the purpose of showing that any conduct attributed to him is probable or improbable.
(S. 52) A party’s character is rele­vant whenever it affects the amount of damages which
he ought to receive. (S. 55).
6. ‘Relevancy of Character’ (NOTES ASL).
7. “Bad-Character-Previous-Convictions”. Pdf

WEBSITES
 Manupatra, <www.manupatra.com>
 JSTOR, <https://www.jstor.org/>

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BOOKS
 V. P. Sarathi, Law of Evidence (EBC Webstore).
 Vepa P. Sarathi’s Law of Evidence is a classic work on the subject that clarifies
and explains the complicated rules governing the law of evidence in a
straightforward and easily comprehensible style. With the enormous growth of
Information Technology, electronic records have replaced paper-based transactions
and consequently the use of digital and electronic signatures to authenticate these
records. This edition exhaustively deals with this topic including the
pronouncement of the Supreme Court in Anwar P.V. v. P.K. Basheer, (2010) 10
SCC 473.
 K D GAUR, The Indian Evidence Act (Edition 2017).
 The author has endeavoured to write this book so that long felt need of students,
teachers, members of the Bench and Bar, prosecutors, defence, police personnel,
NGO’s and those interested in the administration of justice be met. The importance
of an exhaustive and standard text book on Law of Evidence can be visualized from
the very fact that Law of Evidence is applicable to both civil and criminal cases
including local and special Acts.
 Ratanlal & Dhirajlal, Law of EVIDENCE (25th edition, 2013).
 Provides thoroughly reliable, relevant and admissible evidence that substantive
rights may be established in a court of law. The courts have, over the years
painstakingly analyzed and interpreted different forms of evidence written, oral and
electronic in their effort to arrive at the right conclusions. Recent judgments may
be seen to be aids for Parliament in amending existing legislation and in formulating
new provisions in consonance with the times Contains all notable decisions of the
Supreme Court and various High Courts added in the body of the book with
exhaustive notes, comments and more than 11,000 case law references, etc.
 Justice M.R. Mallick, A Criminal Manual (Edition 2018).
 This is used for the bare provisions given in Indian Evidence Act, 1872,
which is related to the relevancy of character.
 WEBSTER ON EVIDENCE

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  This is used to define the word evidence, means an outward sign: indication;
something that furnishes proof: testimony; specifically: something legally
submitted to a tribunal to ascertain the truth of a matter…
 STEPHEN ON EVIDENCE
 According to the author, a law of evidence properly constructed would be nothing
less than an application of the practical experience acquired in courts of law to the
problem of inquiring into the truth as to controverted questions of fact.

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