Leading questions cannot ordinarily be asked in examination in chief or in reexamination What is are...........

Indian Evidence Act (IEA) 1872 Examination of Witnesses

Leading questions cannot ordinarily be asked in examination-in-chief or in reexamination. What is/are the reason/reasons for excluding leading questions –

It would enable a party to prepare his story and evolve it in his very words from the mouth of his witnesses in court.

It would tend to diminish chances of detection of a concocted story.

If a witness is allowed to give his narrative in his own words, he is likely, if the story is made up, to leave some loopholes, to which the cross-examiner will scarcely fail to direct his attack.

All the above