Section 65 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Proof of signature and handwriting of person alleged to have signed or written document produced.
If a document is alleged to be signed or to have been written wholly or in part by any person, the signature or the handwriting of so much of the document as is alleged to be in that person's handwriting must be proved to be in his handwriting.
Section 66 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Proof as to electronic signature.
Except in the case of a secure electronic signature, if the electronic signature of any subscriber is alleged to have been affixed to an electronic record, the fact that such electronic signature is the electronic signature of the subscriber must be proved.
Section 67 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Proof of execution of document required by law to be attested.
If a document is required by law to be attested, it shall not be used as evidence until one attesting witness at least has been called for the purpose of proving its execution, if there be an attesting witness alive, and subject to the process of the Court and capable of giving evidence:
Provided that it shall not be necessary to call an attesting witness in proof of the execution of any document, not being a will, which has been registered in accordance with the provisions of the Indian Registration Act, 1908, unless its execution by the person by whom it purports to have been executed is specifically denied.
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Section 68 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Proof where no attesting witness found.
If no such attesting witness can be found, it must be proved that the attestation of one attesting witness at least is in his handwriting, and that the signature of the person executing the document is in the handwriting of that person.
Section 69 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Admission of execution by party to attested document.
The admission of a party to an attested document of its execution by himself shall be sufficient proof of its execution as against him, though it be a document required by law to be attested.
Section 70 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Proof when attesting witness denies execution.
If the attesting witness denies or does not recollect the execution of the document, its execution may be proved by other evidence.
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Section 71 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Proof of document not required by law to be attested.
An attested document not required by law to be attested may be proved as if it was unattested.
Section 72 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved.
(1) In order to ascertain whether a signature, writing or seal is that of the person by whom it purports to have been written or made, any signature, writing, or seal admitted or proved to the satisfaction of the Court to have been written or made by that person may be compared with the one which is to be proved, although that signature, writing or seal has not been produced or proved for any other purpose.
(2) The Court may direct any person present in Court to write any words or figures for the purpose of enabling the Court to compare the words or figures so written with any words or figures alleged to have been written by such person.
(3) This section applies also, with any necessary modifications, to finger impressions.
Section 73 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Proof as to verification of digital signature.
In order to ascertain whether a digital signature is that of the person by whom it purports to have been affixed, the Court may direct—
(a) that person or the Controller or the Certifying Authority to produce the Digital Signature Certificate;
(b) any other person to apply the public key listed in the Digital Signature Certificate and verify the digital signature purported to have been affixed by that person.
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Section 74 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Public and private documents
(1) The following documents are public documents:—
(a) 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 of India or of a foreign country;
(b) public records kept in any State or Union territory of private documents.
(2) All other documents except the documents referred to in sub-section (1) are private.
Section 75 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Certified copies of public documents.
Every public officer having the custody of a public document, which any person has a right to inspect, shall give that person on demand a copy of it on payment of the legal fees therefor, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy that it is a true copy of such document or part thereof, as the case may be, and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed by such officer with his name and his official title, and shall be sealed, whenever such officer is authorised by law to make use of a seal; and such copies so certified shall be called certified copies.
Explanation.—Any officer who, by the ordinary course of official duty, is authorised to deliver such copies, shall be deemed to have the custody of such documents within the meaning of this section.
Section 76 BSA | Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Proof of documents by production of certified copies.
Such certified copies may be produced in proof of the contents of the public documents or parts of the public documents of which they purport to be copies.
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