Section 74. Public documents

Indian Evidence Act, 1872

74. Public documents

The following documents are public documents :-

(1) documents forming the acts, or records of the acts –

(i) of the sovereign authority,

(ii) of official bodies and tribunals, and

(iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, 48[of any part of India or of the Commonwealth ] or of a foreign country;

(2) Public records kept 49[ in any State ] of private documents.