Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 · Chapter IX: Of Witnesses
Section 134: Confidential communication with legal advisers
In plain words
No one can be compelled to disclose confidential communications with their legal adviser, unless they offer themselves as a witness, and then only those communications the court thinks necessary to explain their own evidence.
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Official text
No one shall be compelled to disclose to the Court any confidential communication which has taken place between him and his legal adviser, unless he offers himself as a witness, in which case he may be compelled to disclose any such communications as may appear to the Court necessary to be known in order to explain any evidence which he has given, but no others
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Source: India Code (indiacode.gov.in), the consolidated text published by the Legislative Department, Government of India. Text as updated on India Code on 25 August 2026. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here. Official text on India Code.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 134
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