Gujarat High Court Civil Manual (subordinate court practice), 1960
The following extracts from revised rules framed by the Government of India regulating the applications for and the payment of the services of the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents are reproduced for convenience of reference:— 1. Applications should be sent direct to Government Examiner of Questioned Documents, Intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs, "Dormers", Simla-1. 2. Acceptable applications fall into two classes:— (A) Official applications from certain authorities including applications from High Court. (B) Other applications. These include cases from private parties in Civil Suits in Indian Union Courts. These will be accepted only on the requisition from the Court in which the case is being heard. The party concerned must move the Court and it will rest with the Court to take the further steps necessary to obtain the services of the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents. Explanation.—Reference made by a Court suo motu in Civil cases in which the State is not a party will be deemed to be cases from private parties for the purposes of these rules. 3. Applications falling under classes A and B will ordinarily be accepted but may be refused at the discretion of the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents if they cannot be, undertaken without detriment to his other work. 4. An inclusive fee will be charged in each case in which an opinion is given and will normally cover the opinion, the cost of photographs and the giving of evidence, limited in class B cases to one day. The inclusive fee for class A cases will be Rs. 220 and for class B cases Rs. 250. (This fee, however, does not cover travelling allowance which is governed by rule 13 below). 5. Where on class A case is split up in Court into several cases, a fee of Rs. 150 (one hundred and fifty) will be charged for each split up case. Similarly, where one class B case is split up in Court into several cases, the fee will be Rs. 200 (two hundred) for each split up case. 6. Subject to the exception stated at the end of this rule, the fee is payable in advance in all cases and each application should be accompanied by a certificate in the following form:— 'Certified that sum of rupees two hundred and twenty (Rs.220) has been deposited in the..................Treasury on............ two hundred and fifty (Rs.250) on account of the Government Examiner of Questioned Document fee in Case/Suit No. ...................and that this amount