Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1303 · Decided 29 November 2019
G H P. Gopalkrishnan @ Dileep v. State of Kerala and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1303 · [2019] 17 S.C.R. 422
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1794/2019
- Decided
- 29 November 2019
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, DINESH MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 29, 228A; CrPC Section 29, 207, 327(2), 173, 173(5)(a); Evidence Act Section 3, 65B, 29, 95(2)(b); Constitution Article 207, 21; Information Technology Act Section 2(1)(t)
Headnote
Evidence Act, 1872: ss.3 and 65B - Document - Whether the contents of a memory card/pen drive being electronic record as predicated in s.2(1)(t) of Information Technology Act would qualify as a document within the meaning of s.3 of Evidence Act and s.29 of basis for classifying an article as a 'document' depends upon information which is inscribed and not on where it is inscribed - Definition of 'evidence' as envisaged u/s.3, clearly takes within its fold documentary evidence to mean and include all documentary
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