112. When the question is whether persons are partners, landlord and tenant, or principal and agent, and it has been shown that they have been acting as such, the burden of proving that they do not stand, or have ceased to stand, to each other in those relationships respectively, is on the person who affirms it.
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Section 112: Burden of proof as to relationship in the cases of partners, landlord and tenant, principal and agent
Chapter VII — Of the Burden of Proof
Source: official text of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (Ministry of Home Affairs).