Is carbon copy of a cash-receipt equivalent to original?

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AP

Trainee

83 Points Joined August 2012

(This is probably not the right place to ask but I could not find any appropriate place; so I start with an apology. Please clarify my following doubt.) A seller prepares the original copy as well as a carbon copy of cash/cheque receipt from buyer at the time of selling some item. He however hands over the carbon copy to the customer and retains the original with him. Are these two copies considered equivalent for all purposes? If the customer wants to lodge complain with the consumer court will the carbon copy of the receipt be accepted?

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Daksh

Executive

23 Points Joined March 2010

Dear AP,

The answer to your query is affirmative for two reasons. The carbon copy has got equal evidentiary value as that of the original one. Secondly there is no estoppel from you going and filing a consumer complaint basing your case on the carbon copy resultantly the onus of disproving the fact of carbon copy shall be upon the shopkeeper - the opposite party. Otherwise in view of the Evidence Act and Indian Penal Code there are plenty of case law which put onus on the issuer of the reciept to disprove the same. Last but not least you have every right to go file and invoke jurisdiction of consumer forum basing your claim on the basis of carbon copy of the reciept (infact it would be a good ground of deficiency of service of not issuing the original reciept) .

Thanks and best regards

Daksh