Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
(1) An application for return of a document admitted in evidence and placed on record may be presented to the Court, which admitted it on record or to the District Court, if the record is sent to that court. The document may be returned to the person entitled to receive it after obtaining a receipt in writing in the usual form. Such receipt should be filed with the record in place of the document returned. A note as regards the return of the document should be made in the Roznama as well as in the list of documents. (2) If a party wants the return of a document by registered post, it may be so returned at the party's risk, provided the charges of postage and registration are remitted and an advance receipt is sent along with the application. (3) In any case, in which an appeal or revision application lies, no document shall be returned until the period allowed for preferring such appeal or revision has elapsed, or until such appeal or revision if preferred, has been disposed of, unless the person applying for the return of the document delivers a certified copy to be substituted for the original and undertakes to produce the original if he is required to do so. No document shall, however, be returned which has been declared to be wholly void.