Bare ActsThe Maharashtra Court-fees Act

Section 44

Admission in criminal cases of documents for which proper fee has not been paid.

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Whenever the filing or exhibition in a Criminal Court of a document in respect of which the proper fee has not been paid is, in the opinion of the presiding Judge, necessary to prevent a failure of justice, nothing contained in section 5 shall be deemed to prohibit such filing or exhibition.

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