Section 116
Birth during marriage, conclusive proof of legitimacy.
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and to provide for general rules and principles of evidence for fair trial.
Chapter VII: Of the burden of proof Sections 104 to 120
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.