Evidence law

The requirement of the certificate, under Section 65B (4) of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA), is mandatory for admissibility of electronic record in evidence. The Supreme Court (SC) finally took this view in Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal case delivered on 14th July 2020.

The Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA) states that the information contained in an electronic record which is printed or copied as computer output would be treated as a document without further proof or production of the original, if the output satisfies some stipulations stated in this write up.

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