Syariah Courts Evidence Order, 2001 · s 72

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s 72

Whenever any document is produced before any Court purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence or of any part of the evidence given by a witness in a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorised by law to take such evidence, or to be an ikrar by any prisoner or accused person, taken in accordance with law and purporting to be signed by any Syar'ie Judge, Supreme

Court Judge, Magistrate or by any such officer as aforesaid, the Court shall presume-

(a)

that the document is genuine;

(b)

that any statements as to the circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true; and

(c)

that such evidence, statement or ikrar was duly taken.

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