law: Information Technology Act, 2000
  36. Representations upon issuance Digital
  
  Signature Certificate. – 
  A Certifying Authority while issuing a Digital
  
  Signature Certificate shall certify that- it has complied with the provisions
  
  of this Act and the rules and regulations made thereunder;
  it has published the Digital Signature
  
  Certificate or otherwise made it available to such person relying on it and the
  
  subscriber has accepted it;
  the subscriber holds the private key
  
  corresponding to the public key, listed in the Digital Signature Certificate;
  the subscriber’s public key and private key
  
  constitute a functioning key pair;
  the information contained in the Digital
  
  Signature Certificate is accurate; and
  it has no knowledge of any6 material fact,
  
  which if it had been included in the Digital Signature Certificate would
  
  adversely affect the reliability of the representations in clauses (a) to (d).