The Supreme Court has allowed compact discs (CDs) to be treated as evidence under the law, stating 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 High Court.
The apex court, however, did not go into the authenticity of the taped conversations, but asked the trial court to allow Verma to bring the CD on record and prove its admissibility in the proceedings. The High Court and trial court had earlier refused to consider the CD.