IEA 80 — Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

Statutory text

Whenever  any  document  is
produced before any Court, purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence, or of any part of
the evidence, given by a witness in a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorized by law to take
such evidence or to be a statement or confession by any prisoner or accused person, taken in accordance
with law, and purporting to be signed by any Judge or Magistrate, or by any such officer as aforesaid, the Court shall presume––
that  the  document  is  genuine;  that  any  statements  as  to  the  circumstances  under  which  it  was
taken, purporting to be  made by the person signing it, are true, and that such evidence, statement or confession was duly taken.

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