Section 74

Public and private documents

1. The following documents are public documents:—
   1. documents forming the acts, or records of the acts—
      1. of the sovereign authority;
      2. of official bodies and tribunals; and
      3. of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive of India or of a foreign country;
   2. 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.