CDs can be considered as evidence under law: SC

In a significant ruling, the SC has allowed compact discs (CDs) to be treated as a document under the law and said that litigants should be allowed to prove or disprove such electronic proof in judicial proceedings. The apex court, without deciding on the authenticity of a CD in a case, permitted accused Shamsher Singh Verma to bring on record the taped telephonic conversations to prove his innocence in a child sexual abuse case. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and P C Pant passed the order while setting aside the verdict of the Punjab and Haryana HC which had agreed with the trial court order denying Verma’s plea to produce recorded telephonic conversation between his wife and son with the girl’s father to prove his point that there was a property dispute.