ABSTRACT
Computers have become an integral part of every facet of human lives in the present era of information and communication technology. At the same time, this tremendously high technical capacity of modern computers provides avenues for misuse as well as opportunities for committing crime. In a crime involving the use of technology, the evidence furnished is also in electronic or digital form. The most challenging aspect is that electronic or digital evidence, by its very nature is invisible to the eye. Therefore, the evidence must be interpreted using tools and techniques other than the human eye. Increasing reliance on evidence extracted from computer systems to bring about convictions has led to emergence of a new means of scientific investigation i.e. computer forensics. Computer forensics is a branch of forensic science pertaining to legal evidence found in computers and digital storage media. While a relatively new science, computer forensics has gained a reputation for being able to uncover evidence that would not have been recoverable otherwise, such as e-mails, text messages etc.