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:
1[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 (16 of
1908), unless its execution by the person by whom it purports to have been
executed is specifically denied.]
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1. Ins. by Act 31 of 1926, s. 2.
Section 61 Proof of contents of documents
Section 64 Proof of documents by primary evidence
Section 65 Cases in which secondary evidence relating to documents may be given
Section 65A Special provisions as to evidence relating to electronic record
Section 65B Admissibility of electronic records
Section 66 Rules as to notice to produce
Section 67A Proof as to electronic signature
Section 68 Proof of execution of document required by law to be attested
Section 69 Proof where no attesting witness found
Section 70 Admission of execution by party to attested document