additional documents and again send them to the
Government Laboratory and accordingly, the examiner, after
considering the documents as well as laminated agreement to
sell ... laminated document
would not express the correct and accurate result of the
examination. The document examiner of the FSL, Gandhinagar
despite of the laminated copy
Defendant No.1 has handed over the
keys and laminated documents to the Plaintiff. Thereafter,
the Defendants have left for Pune to attend his mother ... Police Station, the
Plaintiff handed over the keys and laminated documents
to the 1st Defendant and the 1st Defendant issued a note
admitting the payment
Senior Advocate Mr. Oza
submitted that any expert opinion on laminated
documents would bear no value, and, thus should be
considered as invalid
evidence. There appears to be no bar
in accepting a laminated document, or for that matter, any type of document, including
digital records as evidence ... were spelt out by the learned
Tribunal while not accepting the laminated document as evidence. It appears that this
has prejudiced the petitioner.
9. Learned
application for twin reasons: the Gift
Deed is laminated, and a laminated document cannot be
accepted as its authenticity cannot be established; the Gift
Deed ... document cannot be kept out only because it is laminated; if
a laminated document could be delaminated and in the
process the contents
found open. It is true that
Ex.P.62 is a laminated document, lamination sheet is found
open at the one end to some extent ... opening of
one end of the lamination sheet may be due to defect in
lamination or mishandling the document. Under all these
circumstances
document:
i GPA dated 08.06.1979 Ex.DW1/A (Laminated
documents).
ii Agreement to Sell dated 08.06.1979 Ex.DW1/B
(Laminated documents).
iii Cash ... receipt dated 08.06.1979 Ex.DW1/C (Laminated
documents).
iv Gift Deed dated 08.03.2018 Ex.DW1/D (OSR).
v Electricity Bills of the suit
Will dated 06/11/1991 is the document of contest
between the parties. That document has been laminated
and therefore, the defendants were justified ... find that by taking adequate precaution to ensure
that the document in question as laminated is handled
with care, its scientific examination can be permitted
this Court is directed to
immediately get this document laminated and place the laminated
document on record.
2. Heard on IA No.20988
Since the document is now laminated, any direction
for de-lamination could destroy the document
irreversibly.
3. The effect of the said lamination ... Vidhani submits that
when the original document was produced before the
Joint Registrar, the document was already laminated.
The Court is not expressing any opinion
