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Telemedicine plays a vital role in providing health-care services to the victim of both natural and human made disasters. This technology is also applicable in providing domicile treatment to the elderly or home-bound patients suffering from terminal illness. With the sudden pandemic hit, this technology has managed to save many lives. Taking birth from the effective amalgamation of Information and communication Technologies with that of Medical Sciences, telemedicine is a booming area in the health care sector, which have great potentiality in meeting the challenges of the health care industry. India is witnessing an accelerated pace in telemedicine deployment. The 800 million mobile users have widened the scope of e-health in the near future. Though the adoption of information and communication Technology in the health care sector have been initiated by the government, no attempt has been taken up for framing legal and ethical guidelines. In the year 2003, the Ministry of Communication and technology brought out the first policy which defined the standards regarding telemedicine but those recommendations are yet to be converted into effective statutory provisions. This paper is a doctrinal work based on research articles, books, journals, government notification and publication. It attempts to envelop the advantages, disadvantages, legal implications and challenges the telemedicine is going to witness in the upcoming days and also suggests certain policy reforms for its effective implementation in the Indian Scenario.