law: Census Act, 1948
  
  15 .Records of census not open to inspection nor
  
  admissible in evidence:-
  No person shall have a right to inspect any
  
  book, register or record made by a census-officer in the discharge of his duty
  
  as such, or any schedule delivered under section 10, and notwithstanding
  
  anything to the contrary in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, no entry in any such
  
  book, register, record or schedule shall be admissible evidence in any civil
  
  proceeding whatsoever or in any criminal proceeding other than a prosecution
  
  under this Act or any other law for any act or omission which constitutes an
  
  offence under this Act.