- Why should the HC believe a WhatsApp message when we have disputed it as forged and fabricated?
- Anything can be created and deleted on social media these days. We don’t attach any value to the WhatsApp messages -SC
New Delhi: Popularity is not a measure of reliability’ appears to have played on the minds of the Supreme Court, which, on Wednesday, said messages exchanged on social media platform WhatsApp have no evidential value and that the author of such What s App messages cannot be tied to them, especially in business partnerships governed by agreements.
A bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices AS Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy said, “What is evidential value of WhatsApp messages these days? Anything can be created and deleted on social media these days. We don’t at tach any value to the What s App messages.”
At present, there are several cases where such messages have been shown as evidence by investigation agencies and these cases are at
various stages.
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