9. Ext. 3 is the board certificate (original) issued in the name of
Sujit Kumar Roy S/o of Indrajit Roy by Bihar School Examination
Board, Patna, which is in the nature of public documents and has been
proved and marked as exhibit without any objection by the respondents.
Despite this, it is surprising that the Court did not accept it, merely on
the ground that the signatures on the certificate was not proved.
Similarly, the admit card issued by the Board, in the name of same
person and by the same institution duly proved without any objection
has not been accepted. Ext-5 and Ext-6 are school leaving certificate
and character certificates issued by the school, cannot be said to be
public documents, but they are adduced into evidence and marked as
exhibits without objection, and therefore there was no reason to have
discarded them. This is to be noted that these certificates were of the
period during his lifetime. Once a document has been duly proved
without objection, the same cannot be refused to be admitted ( see Junul
Surin v. Silas Munda, 2008 SCC OnLine Jhar 132)
It has been held in Rishipal Singh Solanki v. State of U.P.,
(2022) 8 SCC 602 :
9. Apart from the above decision, the learned senior
counsel placed another decision of Jharkhand High Court in
Junul Surin and Others v. Silas Munda and Others
reported in [MANU/JH/0394/2008 : AIR 2008 Jhar 82] . In
the said case, the question considered by the High Court of
judicature in Jharkhand was whether report of delivery
possession by the Circle Inspector of executive Court is a
public document? While deciding the question, in paragraph
No.10, the Jharkhand High Court held as under: