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PART III ON PROOF · CHAPTER V OF DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE · Presumptions as to documents

Section 80: Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, and other documents

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

The Court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be the Official Gazette, or to be a newspaper or journal, and of every document purporting to be a document directed by any law to be kept by any person, if such document is kept substantially in the form required by law and is produced from proper custody.

Explanation.—For the purposes of this section and section 92, document is said to be in proper custody if it is in the place in which, and looked after by the person with whom such document is required to be kept; but no custody is improper if it is proved to have had a legitimate origin, or if the circumstances of the particular case are such as to render that origin probable.

Corresponding Evidence Act provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

8081. Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, private Acts of Parliament and other documents. Explanation of S. 90

Questions on this section

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  1. 1. To prove that a political leader made a particular statement at a public meeting, a party produces only a copy of a newspaper carrying a report of the speech. No reporter or other person who heard the speech is examined. Which of the following is correct?

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