https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=408970 Secondary evidence may be permitted where a party lays a sufficient factual foundation showing that original documents are lost or otherwise unavailable. Here, the originals had been produced with a complaint under the Negotiable Instruments Act and were returned by the Magistrate on an undertaking to produce them at trial; the complainant later asserted that they had been misplaced despite best efforts to trace them. The Court treated that sworn explanation, supported by the surrounding record, as adequate to justify photocopies, and held that the absence of a separate police complaint was not decisive. Permission to file photostat copies was therefore upheld. en-us Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:23:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=408970 Secondary evidence may be permitted where a party lays a sufficient factual foundation showing that original documents are lost or otherwise unavailable. Here, the originals had been produced with a complaint under the Negotiable Instruments Act and were returned by the Magistrate on an undertaking to produce them at trial; the complainant later asserted that they had been misplaced despite best efforts to trace them. The Court treated that sworn explanation, supported by the surrounding record, as adequate to justify photocopies, and held that the absence of a separate police complaint was not decisive. Permission to file photostat copies was therefore upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=408970