The INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872 Last updated:-13-3-2020

PRODUCTION AND EFFECT OF EVIDENCE

Section 119: Witness unable to communicate verbally.

A witness who is unable to speak may give his evidence in any other manner in which he can make it intelligible, as by writing or by signs; but such writing must be written and the signs made in open Court, evidence so given shall be deemed to be oral evidence:

Provided that if the witness is unable to communicate verbally, the Court shall take the assistance of an interpreter or a special educator in recording the statement, and such statement shall be video graphed.]