Public documents
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Summary
Documents made or kept by the sovereign, official bodies or tribunals, and public officers (legislative, judicial, executive) of India, the Commonwealth, or a foreign country are classed as public documents. Public records in a State that contain private papers are also public documents. Being a public document means they are recognised for use as official evidence in court.
Example
Priya files an FIR at her local police station reporting a theft. The FIR is a record made by a public officer, so it is a public document under this rule and she can produce it in court as the official record of the complaint.
Bare Act
Enacted textThe following documents are public documents :-
(1) 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 any part of India or of the Commonwealth, or of a foreign country;
(2) Public records kept in any State of private documents.
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