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Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023

Section 61, BSA: Electronic or digital record

Pundora · Published 3 October 2026

Section 61 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, in the Act's own words.

What it replaces

Nothing: the official comparison summary marks this provision as new in the BSA, with no equivalent in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. The whole table: Evidence Act to BSA.

The section

61. Electronic or digital record.

Nothing in this Adhiniyam shall apply to deny the admissibility of an electronic or digital record in the evidence on the ground that it is an electronic or digital record and such record shall, subject to section 63, have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as other document.

The text is India Code's consolidated text as loaded into Pundora's statute corpus on 1 September 2026. A section quoted in a draft checked by Pundora is checked against this text.

Sources

  1. India Code: Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, section 61 (read 1 September 2026)
  2. Bureau of Police Research and Development: comparison summary, BSA to Evidence Act (read 1 September 2026)

The Act's own words, from India Code. If the text here differs from the Gazette, the Gazette governs; write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.