Mera Samvidhaan All of Code of Civil Procedure, 1908

Order XIII · Production, Impounding and Return of Documents

8Court may order any document to be impounded.

Order 13, Rule 8

Notwithstanding anything contained in rule 5 or rule 7 of this Order or in rule 17 of Order VII, the Court may, if it sees sufficient cause, direct any document or book produced before it in any suit to be impounded and kept in the custody of an officer of the Court, for such period and subject to such conditions as the Court thinks fit.

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