Citing the recent Supreme Court ruling on privacy, the Delhi HC has questioned if private messages can be relied upon as evidence in a criminal investigation.
In a recent hearing, a bench of Justices Siddharth Mridul and Najmi Waziri asked if messages sent on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) can be treated as evidence following the SC ruling declaring privacy as a fundamental right.

The HC said the government and the Enforcement Directorate will have to address this point while hearing a plea by meat exporter and businessman Moin Qureshi challenging his recent arrest by ED in a money laundering case. He has filed a writ arguing that the ED arrested him without citing grounds of arrest, violating the Constitution.