Email as evidence
Raju
(Querist) 13 March 2013
This query is : Resolved
Hi Experts,
Can you please guide whether electronics communication such as e-mails/SMS/phone calls are counted as evidence and proofs in our legal system for any type of dispute or case ?
Devajyoti Barman
(Expert) 13 March 2013
Yes , these are very much admissible in evidence.
The print outs needs to be exhibited, not its photocopy.
R.K Nanda
(Expert) 13 March 2013
they are admissible in evidence in court.
Advocate Bhartesh goyal
(Expert) 14 March 2013
The Indian Evidence Act,1872
65B. Admissibility of electronic records
.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, any information contained in an electronic record which is printed on a paper, stored, recorded or copied in optical or magnetic media produced by a computer (hereinafter referred to as the computer output) shall be deemed to be also a document, if the conditions mentioned in this section are satisfied in relation to the information and computer in question and shall be admissible in any proceedings, without further proof or production of the original, as evidence of any contents of the original or of any fact stated therein of which direct evidence would be admissible
CA Ayush Agrawal
(Expert) 14 March 2013
Yes it can be.
But one must prove its originality.
Raj Kumar Makkad
(Expert) 15 March 2013
It has repeatedly been clarified on this site that such evidence is duly admissible in courts.
