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15) of the Companies Act 1956, `Document' includes summons, notice, requisition, order, other legal process and registers, whether issued, sent or kept in pursuance of the Companies Act or any other Act or otherwise. Any decipherable information which is set down in a lasting form would be a document, and if it is printed in India, it is hit by s. 3 of the Press and Registration of Books Act, 1867.--Public Prosecutor v. T. Amrath Rao AIR 1960 AP 176 Documents apply to writings; to words printed, lithographed, or photographed; to maps or plans; to seals, plates, or even stones on which inscriptions are cut or engraved. Within the meaning of the best evident rule, document is any physical embodiment of information or ideas of a letter, a contract, a receipt, a book of accounts, a blue print or an x-ray plate.