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What an affidavit does — and does not do
A Notary is expressly named as an authority before whom affidavits may be sworn: section 139(aa) of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 and section 333(1)(c) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Notarisation certifies that the deponent appeared and swore to the contents. It does not certify that the contents are true — it certifies that you said them, on oath, and made yourself answerable if you lied.
Why affidavits get rejected
- The fact is stated too vaguely for the officer to act on. "My name is spelt differently in some documents" tells him nothing. Name the documents, quote both spellings, identify the numbers.
- The deponent has no personal knowledge of what is being sworn. An affidavit about events the deponent did not witness has to say how he knows.
- The document is not identified by number, date and issuing authority.
- The verification clause is wrong — which parts are true to knowledge and which to information and belief.
- It does not cover what the office actually has to be satisfied about, because nobody asked the office.
The single most useful thing you can bring is the letter or list from whoever asked for the affidavit. Different offices need different facts stated, and an affidavit drafted for the wrong recipient is a wasted trip even when everything in it is true.
What is required
Stamp duty as currently prescribed under the Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958; correct drafting; the deponent in person, because the oath is administered to a person and not to a piece of paper; and the notary's signature and official seal, without which under section 8(2) of the Notaries Act, 1952 it is not a notarial act at all.
Most passport annexures are now plain-paper self-declarations needing neither stamp paper nor a notary. Anti-ragging undertakings are filed online at antiragging.in. EPFO corrections are usually an online joint declaration. We would rather say so than sell you a notarisation.
We do not publish duty figures on this website. The Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 was amended in 2025 and several articles were restructured; a rate printed on a web page goes stale and costs somebody money. As a Government authorised e-Stamping centre we confirm the duty currently prescribed for your specific document and issue the e-stamp against it, at face value. The notarial fee is separate and capped by law — ₹35 to attest execution, ₹35 to administer an oath or take an affidavit, under Rule 10(1) of the Notaries Rules, 1956. The full fee table →
Drafted here, in Gujarati or English
Drafted by an advocate of 35+ years rather than filled into a downloaded template, e-stamped at a Government authorised centre, and notarised in the same visit. If the parties read Gujarati, the document is drafted in Gujarati — not translated out of an English form, because legal Gujarati has its own settled vocabulary and a literal translation frequently means something looser.
What to bring
- Photo ID for the deponent
- The letter or list from whoever asked for the affidavit
- The underlying documents — the certificate with the wrong name, the police complaint, the RTO forms
- Exact details of any document being referred to