Yes — obtaining certified copies of your criminal case records in Patna is your legal right, and it is a practical necessity for pursuing appeals, revisions, or any further remedy effectively. Understanding the process at Patna's courts ensures you get what you need promptly rather than being sent from desk to desk.

Your entitlement to documents begins at the cognizance stage. Under Section 230 of the BNSS (formerly Section 207 CrPC), once the Magistrate takes cognizance of a police report, you must be supplied — without charge — with copies of the chargesheet, the FIR, the statements of witnesses recorded during investigation under Section 180 BNSS, and every other document the prosecution intends to rely upon at trial. This supply is a mandatory right, not a discretionary favour, and it is the foundation of your ability to prepare your defence. If these documents have not been supplied despite cognizance being taken, bring it to your counsel's attention immediately.

For certified copies of subsequent court orders, judgments, witness depositions, and other records generated during the proceedings, the process at Patna's criminal courts — the CJM Court complex at Patna City and the Sessions Court — runs through the copying section of the respective court. Your advocate or a registered court agent files a certified-copy application specifying the document, pays the prescribed court fee, and the copying section issues the certified copy in due course. Certified copies bear the court's official seal and signature and are legally authenticable documents that can be produced before the Patna High Court, the Supreme Court, or any other authority. The right to certified copies of public and judicial records flows from the general law of evidence now carried into the BSA. The criminal advocates at the Patna panel of Aapka Legal Advice can file certified-copy applications and follow up with the court's copying section so you have every document you need when the limitation clock is running.

A standing practical note: obtain the certified copy of any judgment or order you wish to appeal or revise as soon as it is passed. Limitation runs from the date of the order, and time spent obtaining the certified copy is not automatically excluded from the limitation period. Acting promptly protects your appellate rights.