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Validity of Digital Contracts in India and implications of the Stamp Act

It is close to 20 years since India passed the Information Technology Act and notified it with effect from 17th October 2000. It enabled digital contracts to be recognized in law and established a “Judicially recognized Digital Society”. (For this … Continue reading

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Shafi Mohammed Judgement rejected by Gujarat High Court

The High Court of Gujarat in the election petition 3/2018 (Ashwinbhai Kamsubhai Rathod Vs Bhailalbhai Kalubhai Pandav and others) had an occasion to appreciate the CCTV footage as evidence. This was a case where the petitioner had lost the election … Continue reading

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Excusing Section 65B certificate has to for the right reasons only…

The Dharwar bench of Karnataka High Court had on 25th October 2019 decided an appeal regarding dissolution of marriage in which certain references have been made to Section 65B of Indian Evidence Act. Hence the case is briefly discussed here. … Continue reading

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Compliance of digital signature systems with Indian law

India has adopted the digital signature law as per Information Technology Act (ITA 2000) and declared it to be the only form of authentication of an electronic document recognized in India. Initially there was Section 3 which adopted a system … Continue reading

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Request the Parliamentary committee on Personal Data Protection Bill to use Virtual Meetings

With the entire world being disrupted with theĀ  outbreak of COVID 19, there is a diversion of Government attention to the immediate task of fighting the menace of the Virus. Since the Virus seems to have threatened even the Parliament … Continue reading

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The Visakha Industries judgement on Section 79 of ITA 2000

On December 10, 2019, an important judgement of the Supreme Court was published in the case of Google India Vs Visakha Industries Ltd. The judgement was delivered by Justices K.M.Joseph and Ashok Bhushan. The most important take from the judgement … Continue reading

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