Section of return of documents inn crpc.

govardhan varma (Querist) 25 June 2022 This query is : Resolved
What is the Section of the return of the Documents in the CrpC?

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Order 13, Rule 9 of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908, outlines the process for returning documents admitted as evidence in a suit. Generally, documents can be retrieved once the suit or any appeal period has concluded. However, provisions exist for earlier return if a certified or ordinary copy is substituted and the original can be produced if needed. Sections 451 and 457 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), along with Chapter XXXIV, govern the disposal of property in criminal cases.

Dr J C Vashista (Expert) 26 June 2022
ORDER 13, RULE 9 of CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE, 1908 reads as
"9. RETURN OF ADMITTED DOCUMENTS.
(1) Any person, whether a party to the suit or not, desirous of receiving back any document produced by him in the suit and placed on the record shall, unless the document is impounded under rule 8, be entitled to receive back the same,-
(a) where the suit is one in which an appeal is not allowed, when the suit has been disposed of, and

(b) where the suit is one in which an appeal is allowed, when the Court is satisfied that the time for preferring an appeal has elapsed and that no appeal has been preferred or, if an appeal has been preferred, when the appeal has been disposed of :
Provided that a document may be returned at any time earlier than that prescribed by this rule if the person applying therefore-
(a) delivers to the proper officer for being substituted for the original,-
(i) in the case of a party to the suit, a certified copy, and
(ii) in the case of any other person, an ordinary copy which has been examined, compared and certified in the manner mentioned in sub-rule (2) of rule 17 of Order VII, and
b) undertakes to produce the original, if required to do so:
Provided also, that no document shall be returned with, by force of the decree, has become wholly void or useless.

(2) On the return of a document admitted in evidence, a receipt shall be given by the person receiving it.