The Evidence Act, 1872 Model Test 6 (English)

Time Allowed30 Minutes

Total Questions50 MCQs

Total Marks50 Marks

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Evidence Act Model Test 6 (English)

The Evidence Act, 1872

Questions: 50
Full Marks: 50
Time: 30 Minutes

1 / 50

Circumstantial evidence must satisfy the following tests.

A) The circumstances from which an inference of guilt is to be drawn must be cogently and firmly established

B) Those circumstances should be of a definite tendency unerringly pointing towards the guilt of the accused

C) all the above

D) The circumstances taken collectively should form a chain so complete that there is no escape from the conclusion that within all human probability the crime was committed by the accused

2 / 50

A files a suit against B for not paying the rent on the basis of a lease agreement. C deposes, that he was present when the agreement is entered into. The evidence given by C is _____ evidence.

A) Circumstantial

B) Substantial

C) Real

D) Direct

3 / 50

Facts which exist in the minds of the people are called-

A) Positive facts

B) Negative facts

C) Psychological facts

D) Physical facts

4 / 50

The contents of the documents may be proved either by primary evidence or secondary evidence.

A) True

B) partly true

C) False

D) none of the above

5 / 50

According to Bangladeshi Evidence Act relevancy means strictly admissibility.

A) partly true

B) False

C) True

D) none of the above

6 / 50

Under Section 146 of the Bangladeshi Evidence Act, a witness may be questioned,

A) to shake his credit by injuring his character

B) to test his veracity

C) all the above

D) to discover who he is and what is his position in life

7 / 50

The possession or ownership of property of the grandfather of defendant on the basis of documents 30 years old can

A) be proved at the option of plaintiff

B) be proved at the option of defendant

C) be proved

D) not to be proved

8 / 50

Law of evidence is-

A) an adjective law

B) both (a) & (b)

C) neither (a) nor (b)

D) a substantive law

9 / 50

Under the law of evidence, the relevant fact must be-

A) logically relevant

B) legally relevant

C) none of the above

D) legally & logically relevant

10 / 50

_____ confession are made to any person outside the court, it may be to police, to his friends, enemies, wife, to his neighbour.

A) Extra-judicial

B) none of the above

C) Retracted

D) Judicial

11 / 50

For taking the dying declaration from the deceased, the presence of Magistrate is

A) required at the request of the police

B) required at the request of the relative of the deceased

C) not mandatory

D) mandatory

12 / 50

What essential change was made in section 154 of Evidence Act vide Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2005?

A) former statement of witness may be proved to corroborate later testimony as to same fact

B) the party is entitled to rely on any part of the evidence of the witness to whom he has called to put any question to him, which might be put in cross-examination by the adverse party

C) corroborating a witness by questioning him on surrounding circumstances

D) two statements sought to be contradicted in addition should be drawn to previous statement

13 / 50

The evidence must be always direct, and if the oral evidence is hearsay it is inadmissible.

A) True

B) partly true

C) False

D) none of the above

14 / 50

Each case must be determined on its own facts keeping in view the circumstances in which the dying declaration was made.

A) False

B) none of the above

C) True

D) partly true

15 / 50

Admission itself is hearsay evidence.

A) True

B) False

C) partly true

D) none of the above

16 / 50

An accused can be convicted on the basis of his extra judicial confession only if it is made before

A) none of these

B) a Magistrate

C) a police officer

D) a credible person

17 / 50

Oral admissions as to the contents of a documents are not relevant, unless and until the party proposing to prove them shows that he is entitled to give secondary evidence of the contents of such document under the rules hereinafter contained, or unless the genuineness of a document produced is in question.

A) False

B) partly true

C) True

D) none of the above

18 / 50

A caused B's death by stabbing him with a knife. C sees the whole transaction and deposes in a court of law. Here the evidence given by C is _____ evidence.

A) Real

B) Circumstantial

C) Substantial

D) Direct

19 / 50

A judgment in an election petition is not one of the judgments specifically recognised by

A) section 41 of the Evidence Act

B) section 56 of the Evidence Act

C) section 57 of the Evidence Act

D) section 42 of the Evidence Act

20 / 50

Under the law of evidence, as a general rule opinion on a matter of fact and law both are relevant

A) True

B) partly true

C) False

D) none of the above

21 / 50

Which section of the Bangladeshi Evidence Act was amended by the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2005

A) section 90A

B) section 32

C) section 154

D) section 118

22 / 50

In which of the following cases Supreme Court held that "Test identification parade is only an aid to investigation. The practice is not born out of prudence"?

A) Siddharth Vashist @ Manu Sharma v. State (NCT of Delhi), AIR 2010 SC 2352

B) Sujata v. S.K. Behem, AIR 2010 (NOC) 812

C) S. Jaiswal v. Alok, AIR 2010 (NOC) 805

D) Shivaji v. Nagendra, AIR 2010 SC 2261

23 / 50

The evidence unearthed by the sniffer dog falls under

A) scientific evidence

B) documentary evidence

C) hearsay evidence

D) oral evidence

24 / 50

A confession to be inadmissible under section 25 of the Evidence Act

A) must relate to another crime

B) may relate to the same crime for which offender is charged

C) none of the above

D) must relate to the same crime for which offender is charged

25 / 50

Facts can be-

A) none of the above

B) psychological

C) physical and psychological

D) physical

26 / 50

What is correct as regards the admissibility of self-regarding statements-

A) self-serving statement is generally admissible but a self-harming statement is generally inadmissible

B) self-harming statement is inadmissible

C) self-serving and self-harming statements both are generally inadmissible

D) self-serving statement is admissible but a self-harming statements both are generally admissible

27 / 50

Standard of proof in civil and criminal cases is the same-

A) False

B) partly true

C) True

D) none of the above

28 / 50

Bangladeshi Evidence Act was drafted by-

A) Lord Macaulay

B) Huxley

C) Sir James F. Stephen

D) Sir Henry Summer Maine

29 / 50

There is no absolute rule of law that dying declaration cannot form the sole basis of conviction unless corroborated.

A) partly true

B) False

C) none of the above

D) True

30 / 50

Section _____ of the Bangladeshi Evidence Act, deals with latent ambiguity.

A) 95

B) 92

C) 93

D) 94

31 / 50

It is a well-settled law that the rule of prudence requires that the evidence of an accomplice should ordinarily be corroborated by some other evidence. It was held by Supreme Court in

A) Youaraj Rai v. Chander Bahadur Karki, AIR 2007 SC 561

B) Kamla Devi v. Khushal Kanwar, AIR 2007 SC 663

C) Bablu v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 2006 SC 115

D) Francis Stanly v. Intelligence Officer, AIR 2007 SC 794

32 / 50

Photostat copy of family settlement is allowed to be produced before court as

A) secondary evidence

B) primary evidence

C) original evidence

D) electronic evidence

33 / 50

If the evidence relates to the existence or non-existence of only a relevant fact, it is _____ evidence.

A) Direct

B) Circumstantial

C) Real

D) Substantial

34 / 50

_____ evidence is known as material evidence also.

A) Direct

B) Real

C) Substantial

D) Circumstantial

35 / 50

Under the Evidence Act, fact means

A) both factum probandum and factum probans

B) none of the above

C) factum probans

D) factum probandum

36 / 50

A dying declaration is a weaker kind of evidence. It does not stand on the same footing as any other piece of evidence.

A) none of the above

B) False

C) True

D) partly true

37 / 50

Proof of a fact depends

A) on the accuracy of the statement and not upon the probability of its existence

B) on rigid mathematical demonstration

C) on the artificial probative value assigned to a fact

D) not upon the accuracy of the statement but upon the probability of its existence

38 / 50

The law of evidence consists of ordinary rules of reasoning

A) False

B) none of the above

C) partly true

D) True

39 / 50

The provision "hostile witness" is provided under section ... of Bangladeshi Evidence Act

A) section 154

B) section 145

C) section 133

D) section 155

40 / 50

_____ confession are made in a court of law and recorded by the Magistrate under Section 164 of Cr.P.C.

A) none of the above

B) Extra-judicial

C) Judicial

D) Retracted

41 / 50

Facts which are perceived by the senses are called-

A) Physical facts

B) Psychological facts

C) Negative facts

D) Positive facts

42 / 50

Law of evidence is-

A) lex situs

B) lex loci solutionis

C) lex fori

D) lex tallienis

43 / 50

C sees A running away from a room and afterwards sees B lying down in a pool of blood in the same room his evidence is as far as seeing A running away is direct, but as far as the murder is concerned, it is _____ evidence.

A) Circumstantial

B) Primary

C) Substantial

D) Real

44 / 50

An admission which is made as the part of the proceedings so that it is recorded in the file of the court is called a _____

A) none of the above

B) Informal admission

C) Admission by conduct

D) Formal admission

45 / 50

Relevancy and admissibility are-

A) synonymous and co-extensive both

B) synonymous

C) neither synonymous nor co-extensive

D) co-extensive

46 / 50

A _____ confession is a statement made by an accused person before the trial begins, by which he admits to have committed the offence, but which he repudiates at the trial.

A) none of the above

B) Retracted

C) Judicial

D) Extra-judicial

47 / 50

Estoppel deals with question of facts, and of rights.

A) False

B) True

C) none of the above

D) partly true

48 / 50

A presumption is an inference drawn from two facts, which are already proved or need not be proved.

A) partly true

B) none of the above

C) True

D) False

49 / 50

Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus is

A) not a rule of evidence in criminal trial

B) a rule of criminal law

C) a rule of evidence

D) a rule of evidence in criminal trial

50 / 50

_____ is that which goes expressly to the very point in question and which, if believed, proves the point in question without aid from inference or reasoning.

A) Substantial

B) Real

C) Direct

D) Circumstantial

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