Prosecution has been using electronic evidence to seek conviction of accused for a decade but for the first time, the Supreme Court on Monday permitted an accused to bring on record taped telephonic conversations to prove his innocence in a child sexual abuse case. The ruling assumes significance as the SC reversed concurrent decisions of a trial court and the Punjab and Haryana High Court which had rejected the accused's plea to produce recorded telephonic conversations between his wife and son with the girl's father to drive home that he had been framed because of a lingering property dispute with the girl's family. The accused had moved the trial court to take on record a compact disc purportedly containing telephonic conversations between Sandeep Verma (the girl's father) and Saurabh (the accused's son) and Meena Kumari (the accused's wife). He had pleaded with the trial court to get its authenticity tested by a forensic laboratory and match it with voic...