MPGST Act 135अध्याय XIX · Offences and Penalties

धारा 135 · Presumption of culpable mental state

- In any prosecution for an offence under this Act of which requires a culpable mental state on the part the accused, the court shall presume the existence of such mental state but it shall be a defence for the accused to prove the fact that he had no such mental state with respect to the act charged as an offence in that prosecution.Explanation. - For the purposes of this section -

(i)

the expression "culpable mental state" includes intention, motive, knowledge of a fact, and belief in, or reason to believe, a fact;

(ii)

a fact is said to be proved only when the court believes it to exist beyond reasonable doubt and not merely when its existence is established by a preponderance of probability.

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