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Affairs of State, Matter of public nature with which State is concerned. [Evidence Act (1 of 1872), s. 123]

The expression 'affairs of State' in its ordinary significance is of the widest amplitude and will mean the entire business of State. It takes in the routine day-to-day administration and also highly confidential acts involving defence and foreign relations, and also in modern times the multifarious activities of a welfare State, State of Punjab v. Sodhi Sukhdev Singh, AIR 1961 SC 493 (529): (1961) 2 SCR 371. (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 123)