Supreme Court: Whatsapp messages can't be used as evidence in Court

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said messages exchanged on social media platforms have no evidential value and that the author of WhatsApp messages cannot be tied to them, especially in business partnerships governed by agreements.

According to a report by Times of India, a bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices A S Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy asked if there is an evidential value of WhatsApp messages these days. They added that, anything can be created and deleted on social media and no value can be attached to WhatsApp messages.

Meanwhile, in an ongoing standoff with the Centre over its privacy policy, WhatsApp on Friday told the Delhi High Court that it has decided to “temporarily put its privacy policy on hold", till the Data Protection Bill comes into force.

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The Centre and WhatsApp have been at odds over the new privacy policy, which allows instant messaging app to use some of the “business conversations” hosted with Facebook for advertising.