Mera Samvidhaan All of Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

Chapter VII · Of the Burden of Proof

116Birth during marriage, conclusive proof of legitimacy

Section 116 · Part IV · Chapter VII

The fact that any person was born during the continuance of a valid marriage between his mother and any man, or within two hundred and eighty days after its dissolution, the mother remaining unmarried, shall be conclusive proof that he is the legitimate child of that man, unless it can be shown that the parties to the marriage had no access to each other at any time when he could have been begotten.

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