JUDGMENT

Jay Sengupta, J. - This is a revisional application challenging an order dated 08.10.2021 passed by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Kandi, Murshidabad in Criminal Revision No. 17 of 2021, thereby affirming an order passed by the learned Magistrate rejecting an application of an accused under Section 91 of the Code praying for preservation of CCTV footages and phone call records.

2. The petitioner is an accused in GR Case No. 898 of 2021 pending before the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kandi, Murshidabad corresponding to Salar Police Station Case No. 104 dated 13.06.2021 under Section 498A of the Penal Code and Sections 3, 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act. She filed an application dated 24.08.2021 under Section 91 of the Code praying for preservation of CCTV footages and phone call records. It is the petitioner's claim that on a particular date of occurrence, neither the informant nor the petitioner or her sister was present at the place of occurrence. The petitioner prayed that the CCTV footages dated 12.06.2021 from the cameras installed at Hattala, Masundi and Binodia bus-stand and the phone call records between the concerned parties would bear out the