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Mohasin Mujawar (CEO)     11 September 2014

Are scanned documents legal?

When we scan bank documents like loan applications or audit reports or account opening agreements, etc and stored it in soft copy to web server so that it can be accessed from anywhere and destroy the physical copies then in future if any court case happens which demands the signed documents of account holder then is scanned copy can be referred as legal document or proof.



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Sunil S Nair (lawyer)     16 September 2014

No they are secondary evidence in eyes of law they need to prove with original better keep in in bank locker if keeping them is a problem but as a lawyer and my personal knowledge will never advise to destroy original  

Mohasin Mujawar (CEO)     19 September 2014

But if the original documents got destroyed in fire or any other disaster then will the scanned documents be considered as proof same as original?

Prasoon Agrawal   10 July 2015

According to my knowledge if the documents are destroyed due to some disaster than a person has the option to issue the original one again from the authorities by giving an application... As far scanned document are considered kindly refer to Section 65 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

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