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19.In writ petition no. 2668/ 2006 filed by Poonam (victim) and Ishwar Kewat (appellant) she was mentioned as a major at the time of the incident. In her statement u/s 164 CrPC recorded in compliance of the directions of this Court she had mentioned her age to be 20 years (on 21-03-2006). The prosecution had examined PW-8 Raj Kumar Singh, Head Master of a primary school, where the victim had allegedly attended schooling. He had proved the photo copy of a certificate issued by him on 27-03-2006 (after the date of incident and after the recording of statement of victim u/s 164 CrPC) in which the date of birth of Poonam is mentioned as 29-07-1991 on the basis of records of the school. But firstly this document was procured and prepared after the date of incident, after filing of the writ petition and recording of statement u/s 164 CrPC; and secondly the alleged register of BSA office relating to the said certificate contained no seal or signature of any officer or official of BSA office. Said register did not contain any entry made/ written by PW-8. It was such a document which cannot be accepted as admissible in evidence. The alleged certificate (photostat copy, that too with lots of overwriting by another hand writing) issued by PW-8 is without any doubt a suspicious document. Being a photo copy and not original this document is inadmissible in evidence.