Section 147 - Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence.

Whenever any document is produced before any court, purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence, or of any part of the evidence, given by a witness in a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorised by law to take such evidence or to be a statement or confession by any prisoner or defendant, taken in accordance with law, and purporting to be signed by any judge or magistrate or by any such officer as mentioned in this section, the court shall presume that-

(a) the document is genuine;

(b) any statement as to the circumstances in which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true; and

(c) such evidence, statement or confession was duly taken.