Digital Banking for Digital India from Bankers Book Evidence Bill 2026

Digital Signature Certificate is now key legal tool for banking record, its authenticity, integrity and admissibility in the court of law.

Digitally Signed Certified Copies of Bank Records will be easier to produce and rely on evidence while preserving authenticity and integrity standards.

Section 3 provides for conditions for a certified copy.   Sub-section (3)

(3) Every certificate referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall bear the date of its issue, be signed or authenticated, either manually or by means of digital or electronic signature in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, by the branch head or the office head or any other officer of the bank duly authorised by the bank in this behalf, and shall state therein the full name and official designation of the officer so signing or authenticating:

Admissibility of electronic records:  The Bill adds that an electronic or digital record of a banker’s book will be admissible, valid, and legally enforceable as evidence, subject to certain conditions.  These include: (i) the said copy is a true copy of such entry or information, and correctly represents or is appropriately derived from such records, (ii) no unauthorised change of data is observed or detected, and (iii) no tampering with the system or other event which may be essential for establishing integrity and accuracy

The Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill, 2026 transforms bank evidence law from a paper-based regime to a digital-evidence regime, and the Digital Signature Certificate becomes the key legal tool for proving authenticity, integrity, and admissibility of electronic banking record

Application to other entities in the financial sector:  The Act applies to entities engaged in the business of banking and any post office savings bank or money order office.  The Bill retains this.  It further empowers the central government to extend the provisions of the Bill to any entity or class of entities operating in the financial sector, by notification.   The government may specify conditions, exceptions, or modifications in the notification

2. Accordingly, it is proposed to repeal the Bankers’ Books Evidence Act, 1891 and introduce the Bankers’ Books Evidence Bill, 2026, which, inter alia, provides for the following:–– (a) to expand the scope of the definition of “bankers’ books” to include all forms of records maintained by banks, whether in physical, electronic, digital, virtual, cloud-based or in any other form, thereby providing a comprehensive, technology-neutral and future-ready legal framework; (b) to provide for standardised certificate formats and authentication by manual or digital or electronic signature; (c) to expressly recognise admissibility of electronic bank records and permit their production in either physical or electronic form;

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