In the case of Quamarul Islam v. S.K.

Kanta;

MANU/SC/0417/1994MANU/SC/0417/1994 : AIR 1994 SC 1733 that:

"Newspaper reports by themselves are not evidence of the contents thereof.

Those reports are only hearsay evidence. These have to be proved and the
manner of proving a newspaper report is well settled. Newspaper, is at the best
secondary evidence of its contents and is not admissible in evidence without
proper proof of the contents under the Evidence Act."

The Tamil Nadu Industrial Investment Corporation Ltd. v. N. Swaminathan and

Ors. MANU/TN/1565/2002 : 2002 4 LW 147 has held that only in the case where the loss
of document or destruction thereof was established, copies of a document can be permitted
to be marked by way of secondary evidence.