Infolex Article Section 65B of the Evidence Act and Arjun Panditrao Case

The law on the mandatory requirement of filing a certificate under Section 65B (4) of the Evidence Act has remained uncertain. The Supreme Court, by way of its recent judgment in Arjun Panditrao Khotkar v. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal & Ors., sought to put to rest the raging debate on the mode of proof of electronic records under Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. INDUSLAW’s Shabbeer Ahmed, Abhinay V, and Sahana Devanathan discuss.