74. 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.