Lawgist80Documents exempted from production
(1) Nothing in section 79 shall be deemed to affect the operation of sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), or to apply to any letter, post card, telegram or other document in the custody of the postal or telegraph authorities.
(2) If any document in such custody is, in the opinion of any Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Court of Session or High Court, wanted for the purpose of any Coast Guard Court, such Magistrate or Court may require the postal or telegraph authorities, as the case may be, to deliver such document to such person as such Magistrate or Court may direct.
(3) If any such document is, in the opinion of any other Magistrate or of any Commissioner of Police or District Superintendent of Police wanted for any such purpose, he may require the postal or telegraph authorities, as the case may be, to cause such search to be made for, and to detain such document pending the orders of any such Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Court of Session or High Court.
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- 73 Law Officer
- 74 Challenges
- 75 Oaths of member, Law Officer and witness
- 76 Voting by members
- 77 General rule as to evidence
- 78 Judicial notice
- 79 Summoning of witnesses
- 80 Documents exempted from production
- 81 Commissions for examination of witnesses
- 82 Examination of a witness on commission
- 83 Alternative findings
- 84 Presumption as to signatures
- 85 Enrolment paper
- 86 Presumption as to certain documents
- 87 Evidence of previous convictions and general character
- 88 Lunacy of accused
- 89 Subsequent fitness of lunatic accused for trial
- 90 Transmission to Central Government of orders under section 89
- 91 Release of lunatic accused
- 92 Delivery of lunatic accused to relatives
- 93 Order for custody and disposal of property pending trial
- 94 Order for disposal of property regarding which offence is committed
- 95 Powers of Coast Guard Court in relation to proceedings under this Act
