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Can whatsapp message with other person be ground for divorce


01-Apr-2023 (In Divorce Law)

can whatsapp chatting with third person be a ground for divorce ? can divorce be granted?

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Answer #1
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Text messages on the telephone or whatsapp are considered at data in electronic form which is admissible in court. It is easy to tamper with the messages on whatsapp but please remember that even if one of the parties to a conversation / chatting on Whatsapp deletes a message partly, even then the whole conversation may still be available verbatim on the servers of Whatsapp. Moreover, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) may (possibly) also have copy of the conversation on its own servers. So, if there is a police investigation, the police can get the details from those servers. Moreover, the courts can also requisition such details from these companies.

 Secondly, there is no doubt that messages on Whatsapp will amount to evidence. How much reliable or trustworthy or how weight is to be attached to them, will be of course a subject matter of appreciation of evidence.

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