78. (1) The Court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document, which is by law declared to be admissible as evidence of any particular fact and which purports to be duly certified by any officer of the Central Government or of a State Government:
Provided that such document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.
(2) The Court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified, held, when he signed it, the official character which he claims in such paper.
Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023
Section 71 Proof of document not required by law to be attested
Section 72 Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved
Section 73 Proof as to verification of digital signature
Section 74 Public and private documents
Section 75 Certified copies of public documents
Section 76 Proof of documents by production of certified copies
Section 77 Proof of other official documents
Section 78 Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies
Section 79 Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence, etc
Section 80 Presumption as to Gazettes, newspapers, and other documents