The Indian Evidence Act

Who may testify

Witness unable to communicate verbally

Parties to civil suit, and their wives or husbands. Husband or wife of person under criminal trial

Judges and Magistrates

Communications during marriage

Evidence as to affairs of State

Official communications

Information as to commission of offences

Professional communications

Section 126 to apply to interpreters, etc

Privilege not waived by volunteering evidence

Confidential communications with legal advisers

Production of title-deeds of witness not a party

Production of documents or electronic records which another person, having possession, could refuse to produce

Witness not excused from answering on ground that answer will criminate

Accomplice

Number of witnesses


CHAPTER IX.--OF WITNESSES


No person who is or has been married shall be
compelled to disclose any communication made to him during marriage by any person to whom he is or
has been married; nor shall he be permitted to disclose any such communication, unless the person who
made it, or his representative in interest, consents, except in suits between married persons, or
proceedings in which one married person is prosecuted for any crime committed against the other. 

LAWGIST

# 122 Communications during marriage