Facts necessary to explain or introduce fact in issue or relevant facts.

What this section does

Facts necessary to explain or introduce a fact in issue or relevant fact, or which support or rebut an inference from such a fact, or which establish identity, fix time or place, or show the relation of parties involved in a relevant transaction, are relevant to the extent necessary for those purposes. The section limits such explanatory facts to what is actually necessary.

AI-generated plain-language summary. For the binding statutory text, see India Code (official).

The rule in one line

Explanatory, introductory, and identity-fixing facts are relevant to the extent necessary to explain or introduce a fact in issue or relevant fact.

When it applies

• The state of A's property and family at the date of an alleged will is relevant to explain whether the document is genuine.
• A's sudden departure from home after a crime is relevant conduct; the details of his stated business are relevant only insofar as they show the business was sudden and urgent.

Derived from IEA s.9.