Companies Act, 2013
397.
Admissibility
of certain documents as evidence.
Notwithstanding
anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, any document
reproducing or derived from returns and documents filed by a company with the
Registrar on paper or in electronic form or stored on any electronic data
storage device or computer readable media by the Registrar, and authenticated
by the Registrar or any other officer empowered by the Central Government in
such manner as may be prescribed, shall be deemed to be a document for the
purposes of this Act and the rules made there under and shall be admissible in
any proceedings there under without further proof or production of the original
as evidence of any contents of the original or of any fact stated therein of
which direct evidence is admissible.