Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
(1) Attention of the Magistrates is invited to the provisions of section 294 of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, which provide that when any document is filed before the court by the prosecution or the accused, the particulars of every such document shall be included in a list and the prosecution or the accused, as the case may be, or the pleader for the prosecution or the accused, if any, shall be called upon to admit or deny the genuineness of each such document. (2) When a witness proves any document or when the genuineness of a document is not disputed and the document can be read in evidence under section 294, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the correct exhibit number should immediately be noted (i) on the document itself, and/or (ii) in the body of the deposition against the description of the document. Similarly, when another witness who has already been examined is referred to by any witness in his deposition, the exhibit number of the deposition of such other witness should invariably be noted in the deposition immediately after the reference to the witness.