law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  68.Proof of service in such cases and when serving officer not present.-
  (1) When a summons issued by a Court is served
  
  outside its local jurisdiction, and in any case where the officer who has
  
  served a summons is not present at the hearing of the case, an affidavit,
  
  purporting to be made before a Magistrate, that such summons has been served,
  
  and a duplicate of the summons purporting to be endorsed (in the manner
  
  provided by section 62 or section 64) by the person to whom i t was delivered
  
  or tendered or with whom it was left, shall be admissible in evidence, and the
  
  statements made therein shall be deemed to be correct unless and until the
  
  contrary is proved.
  (2) The affidavit mentioned in this section may be attached to the duplicate of
  
  the summons are returned to the Court.