Digital Signature Misuse in India: DTI Wants Every eSign Provable in Court (2026)
Verdict: India has built digital public infrastructure the world studies - Aadhaar, UPI, DigiLocker, eSign - but it has not built the layer that proves what happened inside those systems years later. Digital Trust Infrastructure India Limited (DTI), a newly incorporated Pune deep-tech startup, is betting that "evidence infrastructure" is the country's next national-scale build, and its founder,…
Digital Trust Infrastructure India Limited (DTI), a Pune-based deep-tech startup, is developing a digital signature solution aimed at preserving evidence of transactions for legal use years later. DTI's founder, Rupesh Kuche, argues that current digital signature systems in India lack the capability to provide proven, long-term evidence of digital actions.
India's digital signature system, Aadhaar-based eSign, while widely adopted with over 48 million signatures issued, does not offer a robust mechanism for courts and auditors to independently verify transactions that occurred years earlier. DTI's proposed solution involves a signing device and a platform that would create a durable record of digital transactions, including who authorized them, under what terms, and at what time.
This would help address the significant issue of digital fraud in India, where banks reported ₹48,021 crore in fraud in FY2025-26. The existing system relies on digital signatures to prove identity at the time of a transaction, but it does not preserve the necessary evidence for subsequent legal disputes.
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