Indian Evidence Act, 1872
39. What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a
conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers.
When any statement of
which evidence is given forms part of a longer statement, or of a conversation
or part of an isolated document, or is contained in a document which forms part
of a book, or is contained in part of electronic record or of a connected
series of letters or papers, evidence shall be given of so much and no more of
the statement, conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of
letters or papers as the Court considers necessary in that particular case to
the full understanding of the nature and effect of the statement, and of the
circumstances under which it was made.]