INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
73. Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved.
72. Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved.
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INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872
73. Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved.––In order to
ascertain whether a signature, writing, or seal is that of the person by whom it purports to have been
written or made, any signature, writing, or seal admitted or proved to the satisfaction of the Court to have
been written or made by that person may be compared with the one which is to be proved, although that
signature, writing, or seal has not been produced or proved for any other purpose.
The Court may direct any person present in Court to write any words or figures for the purpose of
enabling the Court to compare the words or figures so written with any words or figures alleged to have
been written by such person.
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[This section applies also, with any necessary modifications, to finger-impressions.]
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Repealed / replaced by BSA India Code — IEA 1872
BHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023
72. Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved.—(1) In order to
ascertain whether a signature, writing or seal is that of the person by whom it purports to have been
written or made, any signature, writing, or seal admitted or proved to the satisfaction of the Court to have
been written or made by that person may be compared with the one which is to be proved, although that
signature, writing or seal has not been produced or proved for any other purpose.
(2) The Court may direct any person present in Court to write any words or figures for the purpose of
enabling the Court to compare the words or figures so written with any words or figures alleged to have
been written by such person.
(3) This section applies also, with any necessary modifications, to finger impressions.
Current law India Code — BSA 2023