Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
(1) As soon as the list is filed, the Bench Clerk should endorse on the back of each document the particulars mentioned in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of rule 4 (1), Order XIII, Civil Procedure Code. Note.—Occasionally documents are produced which are of great historic value such as old sanads or grants, and such documents may be seriously impaired or damaged by the usual endorsements. It is important that the identity of a document produced in Court and acted upon should be placed beyond question in view of a possible appeal or other future proceeding. But where a document of historical interest is in question, the Court, before which it is produced, should make every possible endeavour to prevent its being defaced by marks of any kind. Some means of avoiding disfigurement would generally suggest themselves. The parties may agree to a photographic copy being substituted for the original, or the document may be enclosed in a sealed cover, or in a locked and sealed box, the necessary particulars being endorsed on the outside. Careful measures should also be taken for the safe custody of such documents. (2) If any document presents a suspicious appearance, a note of it should be made in the list as well as in the Roznama and if the Court sees sufficient cause it may impound the document under Order XIII, rule 8 of the Civil Procedure Code. If any document appears to have been executed on unstamped or insufficiently stamped paper, action should be taken under the Bombay Stamp Act.