1. The 8th accused, aggrieved by the rejection of his application Crl.M.P.No.49/2018 in C.P.No.16/2017 of the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Angamaly, for a direction to furnish a cloned copy of the contents and the transcript of a memory card produced by the prosecution, has approached this Court.

2. The crux of the prosecution case, as is available from the records, is as follows: The 8th accused is well known and popular cine artist. The defacto complainant (victim) is also a well known actress in Malayalam film industry. It is alleged that the petitioner herein maintained enmity towards the defacto complainant, believing her to be responsible for the break down of his matrimonial relationship. To retaliate, he allegedly conspired with the first accused to abduct the victim, to sexually abuse her, to record the acts of sexual abuse and to black mail her using the video graphed materials. In prosecution of the above conspiracy, the first accused allegedly solicited the assistance of accused Nos. 2 to 6 and on 17/2/2017, while the victim was proceeding in a car along the National Highway, she was intercepted by accused Nos. 1 to 6. They abducted her to Ernakulam and on the