Legal provisions regarding evidence of officers of the mint under section 292 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
sAccording to Section 292 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, any document purporting to be a report under the hand of any such officer of any Mint or of any Note Printing Press of any Security Printing Press (including the officer of the Controller of Stamps and Stationery) or of any Forensic Department or Division of Forensic Science Laboratory or any Government Examiner of Questioned Documents or any State Examiner of Questioned Documents, as the case may be, as the Central Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf, upon any matter or thing duly submitted to him for examination and report in the course of any proceeding under the Code of Criminal Procedure, may be used as evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under the Code of Criminal Procedure, although such officer is not called as a witness.
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The Court may, if it thinks fit, summon and examine any such officer as to the subject-matter of his report. However, no such officer shall be summoned to produce any records on which the report is based.
Without prejudice to the provisions of Sections 123 and 124 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, no such officer shall, except with the permission of the General Manager or any officer in charge of any Mint or any Note Printing Press or of any Security Printing Press or of any Forensic Department or any officer-in-charge of the Forensic Science Laboratory or of the Government Examiner of Questioned Documents Organization or of the State Examiner of Questioned Documents Organization, as the case may be, permitted;
(a) To give any evidence derived from any unpublished official records on which the report is based; or
(b) To disclose the nature or particulars of any test applied by him in the course of the examination of the matter or thing.