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Section 74 BSA Public and private documents

Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 · Edition: Original enacted Gazette, 25 December 2023; supplied UP Police IEA comparison (printed pages 9–25)

Public documents

(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 private documents.

(2) All other documents except the documents referred to in sub-section (1) are private.

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Judgments on Section 74

LOK 2001 (7) SC 2518 · Supreme Court of India

State of Haryana v. Ram Singh

Equivalent citations: 2001 (6) SCC 254 : AIR 2001 SC 2532 : 2001 (3) KLT 130 : 2001 (3) SCR 1178 : 2001 (6) JT 8 : 2001 (4) Scale 527 : 2001 (5) Supreme 321 : 2001 (5) SLT 427 : 2001 (4) SCJ 325 : 2001 (7) SRJ 299 : 2001 (2) KLJ NOC 53 : 2001 (3) CTC 368

Subject–
ActsEvidence Act, 1872 (Sections 74(2) and 76)