Who signs the BSA §63 certificate?

Part B must be signed by the person in operational charge of the computer or device from which the electronic record was produced. Bharat FTK generates the certificate but the signature must be that of the responsible officer.

Is the certificate mandatory?

Under BSA §63, the certificate is required for electronic records to be admissible, unless the original electronic record itself is produced. In practice for seized devices, the certificate is standard practice.

Can I use the Bharat FTK certificate template with images acquired by other tools?

Yes. Load the E01 or raw image and its hash values into Bharat FTK — the certificate template populates from the metadata regardless of which imager originally produced the file.

Court-ready

BSA §63 certificate — one click, court-ready

Under Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam §63, an electronic record is admissible as evidence only when accompanied by a two-part certificate that attests to the technical facts of its production and the operational responsibility of the person who produced it. Bharat FTK auto-generates that certificate from your acquisition metadata — in the exact format Indian courts expect.

Acquire the device write-blocked

Bharat FTK images the source device bit-for-bit with concurrent MD5 + SHA-1 + SHA-256 hashing. Every acquisition parameter — device serial, operator, timestamp, hash values, host machine identity — is logged into an HMAC-chained audit trail.

Populate Part A — technical facts

The certificate's Part A auto-fills from the acquisition log: the electronic record, the device it came from, the process used to produce it, and the person responsible for the process.

Populate Part B — statement of the person in charge

Part B is a signed statement by the person operationally responsible for the computer or device. Bharat FTK fills the technical portions and prompts the officer for the declaration.

Sign and export

The completed two-part certificate is exported as a PDF alongside the case package. The immutable audit log accompanies it so any court can verify the chain of custody end-to-end.

FAQ

BSA §63 · common questions

Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam Section 63 governs the admissibility of electronic records as evidence in Indian courts. It replaces the old Indian Evidence Act §65B and requires a specific two-part certificate accompanying the electronic record.

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