Testimony to facts stated in document mentioned in section 162
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Summary
A witness may testify about facts written in a properly kept document even if they do not specifically remember the events, provided they are sure the entries were correctly made. This covers business books and similar records kept in the regular course of affairs. Such testimony is admissible because it rests on the witness's knowledge that the record was reliably maintained.
Example
Ravi runs a shop and keeps a daily sales ledger. He cannot recall a sale on a particular date, but he testifies that the ledger was kept daily and accurately and that the entry records that sale. Under this rule his testimony about the recorded sale is admissible even without personal recollection of the event.
Bare Act
Enacted textA witness may also testify to facts mentioned in any such document as is mentioned in section 162, although he has no specific recollection of the facts themselves, if he is sure that the facts were correctly recorded in the document.
Illustration.
A book-keeper may testify to facts recorded by him in books regularly kept in the course of business, if he knows that the books were correctly kept, although he has forgotten the particular transactions entered.
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