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Cyber Crime and Law 1.42 Digital Evidence – Technological & Practical Issues

Types of Digital Evidence

Notes Data in desktops, laptops, tablets & cell phones, Data on pendrives, CD, DVD, Encrypted
data, Steganographic data, Password protected data, GPS data in photographs, Data on
the cloud, Network data, Databases.

Extraction and Production in court of Digital Evidence

Email evidence, Facebook evidence, Photographs (from smartphones, digital cameras),
Text, whatsapp and iMessage evidence, Evidence in browsers, Digital signatures as
evidence, Deleted data, IP addresses, Wi-Fi and server logs.

Digital Evidence & the Indian Law
 Relevant provisions of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 as amended by the
Information Technology Act – sections 3, 17, 22A, 34, 35, 39, 47A, 59, 65A,
65B, 67A, 73A, 81, 85A, 85B, 88A, 90A, 131

 Relevant provisions of the Bankers’ Books Evidence Act, 1891 as amended by
the Information Technology Act - sections 2, 2A
 Relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act – section 79A - Examiner

of Electronic Evidence
 Case Law - Amitabh Bagchivs EnaBagchi, 2004 Ark Shipping Co. Ltd. Vs Grt
Ship management Pvt. Ltd., Bodala Murali Krishna vs Smt. Bodala Prathima,
Dharambirvs Central Bureau Of Investigation, Jagjit Singh vs State Of Haryana
&Ors, KN Govind acharya v Union of India & others, State vs Mohd. Afzal
and Ors. State Bank of India vs Rizvi Exports Ltd., State (N.C.T. Of Delhi)

vs Navjot Sandhu @ Afsan Guru, Twentieth Century Fox Film vs Nri Film
Production Associates
 Case Law (Adjudicating Oficers & CCA) - Arhan Technologies Pvt. Ltd,
Thomas Raju v ICICI Bank, Sourabh Jain v ICICI Bank and Idea Cellular Ltd.,

Rohit Maheshwari v Vodafone & others, Sanjay Govind Dhande & others v
ICICI
Bank & others, Umashankar Sivasubramanian v ICICI Bank & others, CCA order
in the matter of Yahoo India.

1.43 Cyber Crimes – Law, Investigation & Adjudication

1. Offences under the Information Technology Act: Computer related offences
(section 43 and 66), Computer source code related offences (section 43 and 65),

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