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The following public documents may be proved as follows: — (a) Acts, orders or notifications of the Central Government in any of its Ministries and Departments or of any State Government or any Department of any State Government or Union territory Administration— (i) by the records of the Departments, certified by the head of those […]

Such certified copies may be produced in proof of the contents of the public documents or parts of the public documents of which they purport to be copies.

Every public officer having the custody of a public document, which any person has a right to inspect, shall give that person on demand a copy of it on payment of the legal fees therefor, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy that it is a true copy of such document

(1) The following documents are public documents:— (a) documents forming the acts, or records of the acts— (i) of the sovereign authority; (ii) of official bodies and tribunals; and (iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive of India or of a foreign country; (b) public records kept in any State or Union territory of

In order to ascertain whether a digital signature is that of the person by whom it purports to have been affixed, the Court may direct— (a) that person or the Controller or the Certifying Authority to produce the Digital Signature Certificate; (b) any other person to apply the public key listed in the Digital Signature

(1) In order to ascertain whether a signature, writing or seal is that of the person by whom it purports to have been written or made, any signature, writing, or seal admitted or proved to the satisfaction of the Court to have been written or made by that person may be compared with the one

An attested document not required by law to be attested may be proved as if it was unattested.

If the attesting witness denies or does not recollect the execution of the document, its execution may be proved by other evidence.

The admission of a party to an attested document of its execution by himself shall be sufficient proof of its execution as against him, though it be a document required by law to be attested.

If no such attesting witness can be found, it must be proved that the attestation of one attesting witness at least is in his handwriting, and that the signature of the person executing the document is in the handwriting of that person.