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14. More importantly, where the prosecution case substantially rests upon electronic evidence, compliance with Section 230 BNSS assumes heightened significance. The Hon'ble Supreme Court in P. Gopalakrishnan @ Dileep v. State of Kerala, (2020) 9 SCC 161, has categorically held that the original memory card constitutes a document, and the accused is entitled to receive its authenticated clone copy prepared in accordance with law. Supply of an uncertified CD, not prepared through hash-value authentication, does not fulfil the statutory mandate.