14. Learned counsel for the appellant also placed reliance on a decision of Alla- habad High Court in the case of Dasi Ram v. Emperor, AIR 1947 Allahabad 429. In the said case, the Division Bench of Allahabad High Court has taken a view that "A register of births maintained at the police station under para 322, Police Regulations, 1942 Edition, being a public document made by a public servant in the discharge of his official duties, entries in this register are admissible in evidence under Section 35 and it is not necessary to prove who wrote those entries and what his source of information was." No police Regulation has been placed on the record shown that such entry regarding the death of Ladaitibai or other persons was being made in the register maintained at the police station. Thus, it cannot be said that the document in question has to be treated at par as was the case before their Lordships of the Allahabad High Court. What is the crux of the matter, which can be culled out from the said decision that the panchnama prepared was in the discharge of any official duty. From the certificate - Ex. P-1 it is not clear that any register was being maintained at the police station and it also does not appear that such certificate was issued in the discharge of official duty. It has not been placed on the record that issuance of such certificate was, in which official duty of a police officer and while making enquiry for such certificate, what official duty was being dishcarged by such police officer. Thus, the case relied on does not help the case of the plaintiff-appellant and is distinguishable. It cannot be said that the entry was made pursuant to an act done in the discharge of official duty.
