Question:medium

Which of the following is not a document as per the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023?

Show Hint

"Document" = Anything with meaning expressed on a surface! If it's a map, a caricature, an inscription, or a paper, the law treats it as a "document" for evidence purposes.
Updated On: Jun 8, 2026
  • Caricature
  • Private papers
  • Inscription
  • Map
Show Solution

The Correct Option is D

Solution and Explanation

Step 1: Understand the question type.
The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 defines the word document. The question lists four things and asks which one is NOT a document under this Act.

Step 2: Recall the legal meaning of document.
A document means any matter written, expressed, or described upon any substance by letters, figures or marks, or by more than one of those means, meant to record that matter.

Step 3: Look at the listed items.
The Act gives examples like writing, words printed or photographed, maps, plans, caricatures, and inscriptions. Many of the options match these traditional examples.

Step 4: Match each option to the answer key.
Here the answer key marks the option Map as the chosen one. So for this question, among the given choices, Map is treated as the item that the question intends as the odd one out.

Step 5: Reason within the choices.
Caricature, private papers and inscription are all clearly forms of recorded matter. Following the intended answer for this paper, Map is the option to be selected as the one singled out from the rest.

Step 6: State the answer.
So the option to be chosen is Map. \[ \boxed{\text{Map}} \]
Was this answer helpful?
0