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Section 80 - The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
80. Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, and other documents.
The Court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be the Official Gazette, or to be a newspaper or journal, and of every document purporting to be a document directed by any law to be kept by any person, if such document is kept substantially in the form required by law and is produced from proper custody.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this section and section 92, document is said to be in proper custody if it is in the place in which, and looked after by the person with whom such document is required to be kept; but no custody is improper if it is proved to have had a legitimate origin, or if the circumstances of the particular case are such as to render that origin probable.
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- Section 94: Evidence of terms of contracts, grants and other dispositions of property reduced to form of document
- Section 93: Presumption as to electronic records five years old
- Section 161: What matters may be proved in connection with proved statement relevant under section 26 or 27
- Section 95: Exclusion of evidence of oral agreement