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    Question

    Legitimacy of child born during valid marriage is

    presumed under which provision of Indian Evidence Act?
    A Section 112 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Section 113 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Section 114 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Section 115 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Section 112 of Evidence Act Birth during marriage, conclusive proof of legitimacy. –– 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 son 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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