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NEUTRAL CITATION R/CR.A/1523/2019 CAV JUDGMENT DATED: 08/08/2023 undefined (53) The PW-23, the Scientific Officer (FSL, Gandhinagar), Shri Dharmendar Govindlal Shah in his evidence at Exh.102 has admitted that he found text fragment similar to the text content of the threat-note from the hard-disk of laptop and it is elicited from his cross-examination that the files created in Microsoft Word, Notepad and Excel, its created date, accessed date and modified date can be retrieved. He has further deposed that there is no way to retrieve the date of deletion apart from the analysis of the properties. He has voluntarily made a statement that no data related to the date on which a given file is deleted, can be retrieved through the analysis of the properties. He has also admitted that if the contents of the particular file are copied identically into another file, the hash value of both the files would remain the same. He has admitted that he had made mirror image/forensic cloning on the one TB hard disk provided by the NIA with the muddamal on 10.11.2017. He has also admitted that there is no date mentioned in his report from page nos.1 to 4 of Exh.103 report.