Legal right through oral assertion but the best documentary evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible is found in his favour then the documentary evidence in favour of a person should be given credence.

 There is a well known dicta that ‘a man can tell a lie but a document cannot’. If a person has or has been bestowed some legal right and he omitted to claim such legal right through oral assertion but the best documentary evidence of which the case in its nature is susceptible is found in his favour then the documentary evidence in favour of a person should be given credence.

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 1477 OF 2019
Muhammad Siddique VERSUS Senior Executive Vice President, PTCL and others