ORDER :

1. The petitioner herein is the 2nd accused in C.P. No.9 of 2019 on the file of the Judicial Magistrate of the First Class-II, Ernakulam. He has been charged for having committed offences punishable under Sections 302, 307, 120B, 143, 148, 341, 506(ii), 323, 326, 201 and 212 of the IPC.

2. In the course of investigation, the investigating officer chanced upon information that the congregation of some of the accused in and around the scene of crime immediately prior to the murder and also of the injured witness being carried away from the location had been captured in three security cams installed at nearby places. The footage was retrieved by following the procedure and the same was forwarded to the Cyber Forensic Lab for analysis and a report was obtained. The footage was produced before Court along with the final report by categorizing the same as a material object.

3. The petitioner approached the learned Magistrate and filed an application seeking to obtain copies of

(a) the CCTV footage relied on by the prosecution,

(b) the FSL report obtained from the Forensic Science Laboratory relating to the CCTV footage and

(c) the report submitted by the investigating agency seeking fu