(1)The following documents are public documents:—

(a)documents forming the acts, or records of the acts—

(i)of the sovereign authority;

(ii)of official bodies and tribunals; and

(iii)of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive of India or of a foreign country;

(b)public records kept in any State or Union territory of private documents.

(2)All other documents except the documents referred to in sub-section (1) are private.