The Indian Evidence Act
125Information as to commission of offences
1[125. Information as to commission of offences. -- No Magistrate or police-officer shall be compelled to say whence he got any information as to the commission of any offence, and no revenueofficer shall be compelled to say whence he got any information as to the commission of any offence against the public revenue.
Explanation. -- Revenue-officer in this section means any officer employed in or about the business of any branch of the public revenue.]
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1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1887, s. 1, for the original s. 125.
CHAPTER IX.--OF WITNESSES
- 118 Who may testify
- 119 Witness unable to communicate verbally
- 120 Parties to civil suit, and their wives or husbands. Husband or wife of person under criminal trial
- 121 Judges and Magistrates
- 122 Communications during marriage
- 123 Evidence as to affairs of State
- 124 Official communications
- 125 Information as to commission of offences
- 126 Professional communications
- 127 Section 126 to apply to interpreters, etc
- 128 Privilege not waived by volunteering evidence
- 129 Confidential communications with legal advisers
- 130 Production of title-deeds of witness not a party
- 131 Production of documents or electronic records which another person, having possession, could refuse to produce
- 132 Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate
- 133 Accomplice
- 134 Number of witnesses