Can evidence be brought in the court after 10 years?

I'd suggest you repehrase your question.

The post title creates an impression of evidence being introduced after ten years of ongoing trial  - I guess it can be; even retrial may be ordered in the interest of justice in peculiar circumstances.

The body of your post on the other hand indicates a ten year old document - of course it can be introduced in evidence! I mean its immateral if a document is ten years or a hundred years old as long as it is relevant.

Can the evidence be said as tampered if an evidence has been introduced in the middle of the proceedings, and the documents are more than 10 years old? Also, this evidence was not a part of the charge-sheet.

Isn't it safe to argue that such evidence which is brought during the proceedings of the case, on the prosecution's will after 10 years, that such evidence cannot be relied on due to the ancient nature of the evidence, and hence, such evidence have a chance that it is tampered with?

give facts of the case instead of framing question paper for LLM exam.

Originally posted by : anisha agarwal
	Can the evidence be said as tampered if an evidence has been introduced in the middle of the proceedings, and the documents are more than 10 years old? Also, this evidence was not a part of the charge-sheet. Isn't it safe to argue that such evidence which is brought during the proceedings of the case, on the prosecution's will after 10 years, that such evidence cannot be relied on due to the ancient nature of the evidence, and hence, such evidence have a chance that it is tampered with?

I can see no reason whatever to question authenticity of a document merely because it is ten years old. If anything, Section 90 of the Evidence Act attaches a presumption to the authenticity of signature./handwriting on a 30 years old document produced from a source where such documents are normally considered to remain. Also, there are numerous judicial precedents on the point that mere use of very old stamp papers for executing an agreement cannot, by itself nullify the sanctity of the agreement, even though it might raise some doubt. 

On a document not being part of a chargesheet, I'm, not competent to comment on criminal procedure and some other member may assist you.

your question is not clear to me

your question is not clear to me

your question is not clear to me