ONLINE CONTRACT IN INDIA LEGAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

In India, its programme like Digital India, e-contracts are very commonly used and accepted in our daily lives nowadays. The term “contract “is defined in sec 2(h) of the Indian Contract Act,1872 as “an agreement enforceable by law is a contract”. An electronic or digital contract is an agreement “drafted” and “signed” in an electronic form. An electronic agreement can be drafted in a similar manner in which a normal hard copy agreement is drafted, but the difference is that it is signed or acknowledged digitally by the parties, even without seeing each other.