Indeks : indeks ; The present edition comes after a gap of nearly five years. Though it is a shorter period as compared to the gap between the earlier editions, this period of five years have been of greater value to the developments in the law of evidence. During this period the subject has grown not only quantity-wise by accumulating a large number of cases and statutory changes, but alsoquality-wise in the sense that the modern scientific techniques of investigation and the advancement in information technology have brought about sea changes in this field resulting in re-examination and revision of a number of fundamental doctrines.