Any person may be summoned to produce a document, without being summoned to give evidence; and any person summoned merely to produce a document shall be deemed to have complied with the summons if he causes such document to be produced instead of attending personally to produce the same.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE · ORDER XVI Summoning and Attendance of Witnesses
Order XVI Rule 6: Summons to produce document
The Code of Civil Procedure, 1908