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THE INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872 Last updated:-13-3-2020 · CHAPTER IX.—OF WITNESSES

Section 118 — Who may testify

All persons shall be competent to testify unless the Court considers that they are prevented from understanding the questions put to them, or from giving rational answers to those
questions, by tender years, extreme old age, disease, whether of body or mind, or any other cause of the same kind.
Explanation. –– A lunatic is not incompetent to testify, unless he is prevented by his lunacy from understanding the questions put to him and giving rational answers to them.