Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Statements made by persons to the State Election Commission.— No statement made by a person in course of giving evidence before the State Election Commission shall subject him to, or be used against him in, any civil or criminal proceeding except a prosecution for giving false evidence by such statement: Provided that the statement- (a) is made in reply to a question which he is required by the State Election Commission to answer; or (b) is relevent to the subject matter of the inquiry.