Section 88A of the Evidence Act, 1872

Section 88A of the Evidence Act, 1872—Presumption as to electronic messages.—

The Court may presume that an electronic message, forwarded by the originator through an electronic mail server to the addressee to whom the message purports to be addressed corresponds with the message as fed into his computer for transmission; but the Court shall not make any presumption as to the person by whom such message was sent.

Explanation.---For the purpose of this section, the expressions "addressee" and "originator" shall have the same meaning respectively assigned to them in clause (b) and (za) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Information Technology Act, 2000.