Census Act, 1948
15 .Records of census not open to inspection nor
admissible in evidence:-
No person shall have a right to inspect any
book, register or record made by a census-officer in the discharge of his duty
as such, or any schedule delivered under section 10, and notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, no entry in any such
book, register, record or schedule shall be admissible evidence in any civil
proceeding whatsoever or in any criminal proceeding other than a prosecution
under this Act or any other law for any act or omission which constitutes an
offence under this Act.