Indian Evidence Act, 1872

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Sections	Particulars
Chapter V	Documentary Evidence
88A	Presumption as to electronic messages
Description	The Court may presume that an electronic message forwarded by the originator through an electronic mail server to the addressee to whom the message purports to be addressed corresponds with the message as fed into his computer for transmission; but the Court shall not make any presumption as to the person by whom such message was sent. Explanation.- For the purposes of this section, the expressions "addressee" and "originator" shall have the same meanings respectively assigned to them in clause (b) and (za) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.]