Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973–Sec. 208 [Corresponding Sec. 231 of BNSS, 2023]–Prayer for providing exact clone copy of memory cards–Rejection of–Justification–Accused has right to obtain copy of charge-sheet alongwith the documents appended thereto so as to exercise his right to defence in an effective manner during trial and to explain his conduct relating to such documents–During trial, the Court is obliged to verify mechanism to enable the accused to satisfy himself about the genuineness and credibility of the contents of the memory cards/pandrive, which is also a document in an electronic form–Petitioner has raised some doubt with regard to genuineness of the recording copies in CDs provided to him and he has asserted that there is possibility of some change during the exercise of copying the data from Card to CD–It would be in interest of justice to direct the respondent-CBI to provide clone copy of memory card–Directed accordingly.
