(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.