Ludhiana City Scam and Digital Investigation

Amarinder Singh and his family might be having sleepless nights (refer: TimesOfIndia 14th June '07) but it could be an awakening for a new era of digital investigation. Now Chetan Gupta had just one pen-drive where he stored Amarinder Singh and his associated accounts' transactions. And we could hire data forensic teams to cull out the data from the (un)fortunate drive.
Now imagine if Chetan had a network of associates/partners and Amarinder Singh too had a network of accompolices; implying that instead of a few files that can be accomodated in a pen drive we were trying to hunt through millions of documents in 'n' different kinds of formats, implying that we only had an idea of what might have happened and need to figure out more but don't know how. This is not too far from reality. It's already happening in US with E-discovery becoming a major part of any litigation. It has opened doors for a host of vendors (Attenex, CA/iLumin, DOAR, EDDix, Fios, Forensics Consulting, Guidance Software, inData, Interwoven, Iron Mountain, Kroll Ontrack, MetaLINCS, Renew Data, Stellent, StoredIQ, Stratify ZANTAZ) in this space. Gartner estimates this space to grow 30% YoY through 2010. It is time the Indian Legal Sector take note.