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7. Further more a reference to the Destruction of Records Act, 1917 (the Act, for brevity) and the Rules made thereunder by High Court of A.P., would also support the view that there is no necessity for the Court to keep unmarked documents in the records or become a custodian of such unmarked documents unwillingly. Destruction of Records Act, 1917, empowers the competent authority; High Court in the case of judiciary - to make Rules. In exercise of powers under Section 3(3) of the Act, High Court of Andhra Pradesh made the Rules. The relevant Rules are Rules 2 and 3, which reads under.

8. As per Regulation 2, unfilled documents, which have been tendered in evidence or those documents, which have been tendered in evidence, have been rejected, have to be returned to the party who produced such documents. If those documents are not reclaimed by the party, who produced them, then only they have to be retained in the Court for a period of one year from the date of final order. This only means that there is no necessity to keep the unmarked documents in the case file. In the eventuality of the party producing the unmarked documents not reclaimed them then only such documents have to be retained in the Court for a period of one year. Therefore, the view taken by the learned Principal Junior Civil Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar, is unsustainable in law.