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: Rise of technology in this digital era has paved way not only to the increase in means of networking and communication, but also several digital scams. Apart from scams several acts of crime happen in a virtually manifested environment. WhatsApp is one of the most predominantly used IMS, where such offences might take place, along with the great many advantages it provides. Under the sect of Digital Forensics, the procurement and analysis of such material device, can be carefully extracted and produced as evidence. The extent of its admissibility and the many procedures for such report to be produced without any tampering is explained in this paper. The observation with the current trend of rise in crimes in digital devices can be noted. The paper in furtherance focuses on WhatsApp Messenger data and the several ways it is used to deceive people and to usher an offence. It also makes a comparative study on Digital Forensic report in India with respect to its global counterparts.