CCTV Photographs Inadmissible Without Certificate U/S 65B Evidence Act: Bombay High Court Acquits Man In Toddler Murder Case._*

*Name of the Case:-*

_Shantilal Dashrath Gaikwad State of Maharashtra,2026 (CR. Appeal No.218 OF 2025)_

*Name of the Court:-*

_Hon'ble Bombay High Court_

*Court Held:-*



_The Bombay High Court acquitted a man convicted for the alleged kidnapping and murder of a one-year-ten-month-old girl, holding that the prosecution case rested on legally inadmissible electronic evidence and unreliable confessional material. The Court found that screenshots of CCTV footage, treated as a crucial link in the chain of circumstances, were improperly proved without production of the original footage or the mandatory certificate under Section 65-B of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 rendering the electronic evidence inadmissible and fatal to the prosecution case._

_Referring to Supreme Court's decision in *Sundar @ Sundarrajan vs. State by Inspector of police, reported in 2023,* without producing the relevant original CCTV footage, without examining the person who had copied and provided it and in absence of the supporting Certificate under Section 65-B of the Indian Evidence Act, the said photographs were inadmissible in evidence._

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