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Chapter II of the Evidence Act - deals with "of the Relevancy of Facts." One particular provision included in that Chapter to deal with evidence relating to criminal conspiracy is Section 10. It is useful to have a look at that section at this stage. Therefore, we may now refer to Section 10 of the Evidence Act.

"10. Things said or done by conspirator in reference to common design.- Where there is reasonable ground to believe that two or more persons have conspired together to commit an offence or an actionable wrong, anything said, done or written by any one of such persons in reference to their common intention, after the time when such intention was first entertained by any one of them, is a relevant fact as against each of the persons believed to be so conspiring, as well for the purpose of proving the existence of the conspiracy as for the purpose of showing that any such person was a party to it."