Certificate under section 65B of Indian Evidence Act required when reliance is placed on Whatsapp messages

Advertisement Rakesh Kumar Singla Vs Union of India (Punjab & Haryana High Court) Learned counsel for the NCB has also placed reliance on Whatsapp messages by which the petitioner could be implicated. However, on the asking of this Court, whether a certificate under Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act is available at the present moment to authenticate the said messages, the answer is in negative. The recent judgment rendered by the Supreme Court in the matter of Arjun Panditrao Khotkar Vs. Kailash Kushanrao Gorantyal and others (2020) 7 SCC 1 has held that a certificate Section 65B o...