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1. Introduction 2

2. Maintenance of Case Records 2

3. Registers to be maintained in the Record Room 4

4. Destruction Work 5

5. Division of the records Criminal side 8

6. Periods prescribed for the retention of the various court 10

Registers, Books and Papers on Criminal side

7. Classification of records into parts in suits, O.Ps & Appeals 11

8. Rules for the preservation and destruction of records in the 13

subordinate courts

9. Rules under the destruction of records Act, 1917 13

(Central Act V of 1917))
10. The division of the records and description of the papers 18
falling under each division
Part – I
Part – II
Part – III

11. The period prescribed for the retention of the various parts 26
of the records in the various classes of proceedings

12. The periods prescribed for the retention of the various court 27
registers, books & papers
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Source of information:
Guide for the Ministerial Officers of Subordinate Courts working under the control of the
Hon’ble High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Published by the A P Judicial Academy, Secunderabad.