Admissibility Of Digital Evidence

To introduce the admissibility of electronic records the Evidence act has been amended by the IT act.¹ This concept of electronic evidence has been incorporated with a framework incorporating and introducing these new innovations in scientific technology. Under Section 3 of the Evidence act, the definition of the term evidence has been amended to mean and include:

• all statement which the court permits or requires to be made before it by a witness: in relation to matters of fact under inquiry, such statements are called oral evidence;
• all the entire document including electronic records produced for the inspection of the court: such documents are called documentary evidence.²