The Evidence Act, 1872 was enacted long ago by the then British Governor, at the tail-end of “the Golden Age of Codification in British India” by the recommendation of the Law Commission of British India. Though the law is old of 150 years, but the principles of the law have universal application, and those basic principles can be maintained with something adaptation with the subsequent ages and circumstances.

Law of evidence is an integral part of both civil and criminal law of the land. The law of evidence is commonly termed as procedural law. But, in our analysis, this branch of law is muchmore substantive law than procedural.

The discussions of the book have been arranged in problem base. For the discussions, we have relied firstly upon the statutory provisions of the Act itself, and secondly, upon the case laws, both of Bangladesh’s as well as of the sub-continent’s jurisdiction. At the end of the book we have given an alphabetical Index of important terms. We hope that, by these two methods, anyone who will search for any law, may find his expected matter easily.

Though the book has been offered mainly for practical use in the courts, but here a combination both of practical and academic discussions has been made, and therefore, we hope that, this book will help both the groups, i.e. the law-readers, e.g. teachers, students, etc. as well as the law-practitioners, e.g. the judges and the advocates, etc. I beg my humble apology to the readers for errors of the book, and I always expect for proper advice and suggestion from the readers to correct, modify and upgrade the book.