law: Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 
  16. Presumption as to registered documents relating to
  
  adoption 
  Whenever any document registered under any law for the time
  
  being in force is produced before any court purporting to record an adoption
  
  made and is signed by the person giving and the person taking the child in
  
  adoption, the court shall presume that the adoption has been made in compliance
  
  with the provisions of this Act unless and until it is disproved.