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Section 78 - The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Presumptions as to documents
78. Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies.
(1) The Court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document, which is by law declared to be admissible as evidence of any particular fact and which purports to be duly certified by any officer of the Central Government or of a State Government: Provided that such document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.
(2) The Court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified, held, when he signed it, the official character which he claims in such paper.
Related Sections
- Section 102: Who may give evidence of agreement varying terms of document
- Section 141: Judge to decide as to admissibility of evidence
- Section 94: Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document
- Section 33: What evidence to be given when statement forms part of a conversation, document, electronic record, book or series of letters or papers
- Section 106: Burden of proof as to particular fact
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