Electronic records and digital signatures gain legal recognition, enabling electronic governance, certification oversight, and cyber contravention enforcement.
Information Technology Act, 2000 grants legal recognition to electronic records and prescribed digital signatures, supports electronic governance, and regulates attribution, acknowledgment, dispatch, retention and security of electronic communications. It establishes licensing and supervision of Certifying Authorities, governs issuance, suspension and revocation of Digital Signature Certificates, and imposes subscriber duties concerning private-key control. It also creates civil contraventions, criminal offences, adjudication and appellate mechanisms, intermediary due-diligence protection, and evidentiary recognition for electronic records and computer output.