Indian Evidence Act, 1872 · Chapter V: Of Documentary Evidence · Public documents
Section 77: Proof of documents by production of certified copies
The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 was repealed and replaced by the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 from 1 July 2024. It still applies to matters and proceedings from before that date, as the repealing law provides.
In plain words
Certified copies can be produced to prove the contents of the public documents, or parts of them, that they copy.
A simplified explanation, prepared with AI assistance from the official text below and checked automatically against it for numbers and cross-references. The official text is the law and prevails over this summary. Not legal advice.
Official text
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. 5. A village-officer in the Punjab has been declared for the purposes of this Act to be a public officer having the custody of a
Source: India Code (Legislative Department), the text of the Act as it stood before its repeal. Words in square brackets [ ] were inserted or substituted by later amending Acts, and *** marks words omitted by an amendment. The amendment footnotes are not reproduced here.
Supreme Court judgments citing the section 77
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Appaiya v. Andimuthu @ Thangapandi & Ors .
Whether the High Court was correct in holding that owing to the non-production of any document by appellant evincing as to how the sons’ of the seller obtained the suit property in a partition Exhibit A1-registered sale…
- Manoj @ Monu @ Vishal Chaudhary v. State of Haryana & Anr
- Ravi Khullarand Anr v. Union of India and Ors.
- M. Ramnarain Private Ltd. and Anr. v. State Trading Corporation of India Ltd.
- Shakuntala Devi Jain v. Kuntal Kumari & Ors.