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

Section 84: Presumption as to powers-of-attorney

The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

The Court shall presume that every document purporting to be a power-of-attorney, and to have been executed before, and authenticated by, a Notary Public, or any Court, Judge, Magistrate, Indian Consul or Vice-Consul, or representative of the Central Government, was so executed and authenticated.

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

Questions on this section

1 question in 9 of our papers cite Section 84. Try these from the free papers:

  1. 1. Which of the following presumptions contained in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 has NO corresponding provision in the BSA?

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