74. Public documents
The following documents are public documents:––
(1)
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 any part of India or of the Commonwealth], or of a foreign country;
(2)
Public records kept [in any State] of private documents.