what all are support documents need to submitted along with mobile for SMS proofs ?
SMS messages are not stored by service provides ( some pages says they store for 6 months ??? ). In this case the mobile device is the main evidence.
Book - Cyber Forensics & Electronic Evidences: Challenges In Enforcement & Their Admissibilitypdf
The basic principles of equivalence and legal validity of both electronic signatures and hand written signatures and of equivalence between paper document and electronic document has gained universal acceptance. Despite technical measures, there is still probability of electronic records being tampered with and complex scientific methods are being devised to determine the probability of such tampering. For admissibility of electronic records, specific criteria have been made in the Indian Evidence Act to satisfy the prime condition of authenticity or reliability which may be strengthened by means of new techniques of security being introduced by advancing technologies.
SMS contents can be modified in some mobiles phones, Does the court listens if we say this and prove that by showing the modified text in the same model phone ??
- Vijay
