The Indian Evidence Act, 1872

§45A — Opinion of Examiner of Electronic Evidence

When in a proceeding, the court has to form an opinion on any matter relating to any information transmitted or stored in any computer resource or any other electronic or digital form, the opinion of the Examiner of Electronic Evidence referred to in section 79A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), is a relevant fact. Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, an Examiner of Electronic Evidence shall be an expert.]

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Old lawIEA §45AOpinion of Examiner of Electronic Evidence New lawBSA §39Opinions of experts

IEA §45A → BSA §39 per the official NCRB Sankalan table. BSA §39 consolidates multiple IEA sections. Marked "(Change)" — substance modified; compare texts.

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Official India Code text: The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), English PDF (iea_1872.pdf) retrieved via Internet Archive Wayback Machine snapshot 2021-09-03 of indiacode.nic.in (portal unreachable from ingest network). Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser on 2026-07-15. Repealed by BSA 2023 w.e.f. 2024-07-01. Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending. Section 114B, inserted by Chhattisgarh Act 25 of 2015 and published as central law, was removed on 2026-08-02 and is now recorded as a State amendment (D-052/D-053).

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