(1.) THE following question has been referred for the opinion of the Full Bench :
(2.) THE question whether the signatures of the registering officer and the identifying witnesses affixed to the document under the provisions of Ss. 58 and 59 of the Registration Act could be relied on as those of attesting witnesses to the document presented for registration, has primarily to be decided in the light of the relevant statutory provisions. As the case before us relates to the validity of a security bond, it will be useful first to refer to S. 59 of the Transfer of Property Act which says,
(3.) THE work "attested" has been defined in S. 3 thus :