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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 80

Presumption as to Documents Produced as Record of Evidence

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Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 80 is part of Indian Evidence Act 1872 - Presumption as to Documents Produced as Record of Evidence. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section 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 proceedings or before any officer authorised 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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What does Indian Evidence Act 1872 Section 80 provide?

Section Section 80 of the Indian Evidence Act 1872 (Presumption as to Documents Produced as Record of Evidence) is reproduced on this page as part of the Indian Evidence Act 1872. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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