What is Power of jury or assessors to put questions What is the meaning of No new trial for improper admission or rejection or evidence Section 166 and 167 of Indian Evidence Act 1872

Power of jury or assessors to put questions and No new trial for improper admission or rejection or evidence are defined under section 166 and 167 of Indian Evidence Act 1872. Provisions under these sections are:

 

Section 166 of Evidence Act "Power of jury or assessors to put questions"

In cases tried by jury or with assessors, the jury or assessors may put any questions to the witnesses, through or by leave of the Judge, which the Judge himself might put and which he considers proper.


 

Section 167 of Evidence Act "No new trial for improper admission or rejection or evidence"

This improper admission or rejection of evidence shall not be ground of itself for a new trial or reversal of any decision in any case, if it shall appear to the court before which such objection is raised that, independently of the evidence objected to and admitted, there was sufficient evidence to justify the decision, or that, if the rejected evidence had been received, it ought not to have varied the decision.