Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
Papers not forming part of Court proceedings shall be preserved in accordance with the directions given below :— (B) The following Registers shall be preserved for 30 years from the expiry of the year of the Register. (i) Dormant file Register. Note :—The Dormant File Register may be destroyed earlier if all the cases registered therein have been withdrawn or otherwise disposed of. (ii) Register of Municipal Appeals. (iii) Register of Summary Cases. III. The following Registers shall be preserved for six years from the expiry of the years of the Register :— (i) All the Registers prescribed in Chapter XXVII. (ii) Fine Register in form No. 95 of the Sessions Courts and Magistrate's Court. (iii) Register of Process and Process Fees. (iv) Property Register including Valuable Muddamal Register. (Unless final orders remain to be passed in regard to disposal of any case entered in the Register.) (v) Unclaimed Property Register. (vi) Register of Copies Supplied to Prisoners in Jail.