The social media is abuzz with the details from alleged Whatsapp chats between Republic TV anchor Arnab Goswami and former BARC CEO Partho Das Gupta. The 500-page long Whatsapp conversations between Goswami and Das Gupta found their way into social media after Mumbai Police annexed it in its supplementary charge filed in the TRP rigging case.
In this backdrop, several users raised questions regarding admissibility of Whatsapp chats as evidence. Let us discuss this issue.
The first thing we have to keep in mind is that an electronic record is also included in the definition of evidence under Section 3 of the Indian Evidence Act. It is treated as