IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VIVEK JAIN

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ON THE 19 OF JANUARY, 2026 MISC. PETITION No. 140 of 2026 ANIKUJJMA KHAN AND OTHERS Versus SMT KHALDA BEGAM AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Sunil Kumar Mishra - Advocate for the petitioners.

ORDER By way this petition the petitioner has challenged the order passed by the trial court dated 12-12-2025, whereby the trial court has permitted to lead secondary evidence of a document, photocopy whereof has been produced before the trial court.

2. The counsel for the petitioner has raised a singular ground before this court that the trial court could not have allowed to take the photocopy of the document in secondary evidence because nothing had been placed by the respondents/ defendants No. 5 and 6 before the trial court that the document was photocopied from the original and that it was exact replica of the original and had been produced from some mechanical process which ensured it to be exact photocopy or replica of the original and therefore, in absence of the necessary ingredients as per Section 60 of Bhartiya Sakshya Adhiniyam-2023 (old Section 65 of Indian Evidence Act), the trial court could not have