Personal WhatsApp on a company phone.
Whose custody story is it in court?
A seized office handset with mixed personal chats creates a messy chain: employer device, employee account, personal messages, official seizure. Who held it, who unlocked it, who extracted it, and what was mixed with what — those questions sit before the chat is treated as a clean exhibit. The handset is one object. The stories inside it are not.
Company phone.
Not a single ownership story.
Educational note. This Insight is for awareness relating to cyber law and digital procedure. It is not legal advice and does not create an advocate–client relationship. Series: Digital disputes, as Indian courts actually see them.