Section 89 Earlier Evidence Act 87
Presumption as to books, maps and charts
Chapter 5: Of documentary evidence
The Court may presume that any book to which it may refer for information on matters of public or general interest, and that any published map or chart, the statements of which are relevant facts, and which is produced for its inspection, was written and published by the person, and at the time and place, by whom or at which it purports to have been written or published.
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (Act No. 47 of 2023). As printed in the Gazette on 25 December 2023. Later amendments, if any, are not included.
Related sections
- 86Presumption as to electronic records and electronic signaturesEvidence Act 85B
- 87Presumption as to Electronic Signature CertificatesEvidence Act 85C
- 88Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial recordsEvidence Act 86
- 90Presumption as to electronic messagesEvidence Act 88A
- 91Presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not producedEvidence Act 89
- 92Presumption as to documents thirty years oldEvidence Act 90