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After recording the disclosure statements of all the three accused, the place where they looted the ATM machine on 27.02.2010 was demarcated as EX.PQ. Thereafter, they led the police to ganda nala of Rohtak bypass and demarcated the place where the ATM machine was broken open and cash lying therein was taken out vide memo Ex.PR. Necessary proceedings were carried out by ASI Pardeep Kuamr PW13. The presence of Rs.11,63,000/- in ATM machine which is duly proved by PW5 Sumesh Gambhir, Bank Manager, ING Vysya Bank, Gurgaon at the time of occurrence, which is inconsonance with Ex.PM, Ex.PN and Ex.PO. These disclosure statements become admissible evidence under Section 27 of the Evidence Act and thus sustained the prosecution case. Jyoti Parkash Pradhan PW9 had affirmed the documents Ex.PE given by the Bank. Santro car in which the accused had arrived at the site of ATM machine at Gurgaon and had taken the said machine to he fields of village Kanheli near ganda nala Rohtak bypass was bearing registration No.HR-26J-9677, which belongs to Sqnldr was stolen from in the night of 18/19.02.2010 and FIR No.59, dated 19.02.2010 had been registered in the Police Station Sector 17/18 Gurgaon under Section 379 IPC. This fact supported the prosecution version that all the accused used the stolen car make Santro for committing robbery and dacoity in ATM machine in Sector 4-5, Gurgaon.

After going through the entire case and file, the prosecution case has worked in three different directions. Initially when complaint Surender Singh PW8 had reported the matter to the police when he was relieved from almirah of the ATM cabin by Bhupender. The Investigating Officer had proceeded to record the statement on the commission of offence. Further, an information was received from police station Vasant Kunj, South Delhi that co-accused Pankaj had made a disclosure statement that he along with other four co- accused had gone to the ATM machine and by removing the machine had taken it in the Santro car. The other three accused namely Siri Bhagwan, Tejbir and Sunder Lal were arrested and on their disclosure statements, recoveries of currency notes were effected from their houses. On receiving an information from police station Rohtak by PW9, they recovered broken ATM machine from village Kanheli, ganda nala Rohtak. The Branch Manager Sumesh Gambhir PW5 informed that there was Rs.11,65,000/- in the ATM machine at the time of incident, which was tallied with the disclosure statements of the accused. The accused led the police party to the place where they thrown the dismantled ATM machine and demarcation of the site was made and this fact was affirmed by the Investigating Officer.

As per disclosure statement made by co-accused Pankaj, three accused were arrested and recoveries of looted currency notes after recording their statements were made. Moreover, damaged ATM machine was recovered for village Kanheli, ganda nala Rohtak. As per the deposit of PW6, Bank Manager Sumesh Gambhir that the amount lying in the ATM machine tallied with the amount so stated by the three accused separately in their disclosure statements and they led the police to the place where the ATM machine was recovered.

In view of the above evidence, the disclosure statement has been rightly considered to substantiate the prosecution version that all the three accused have committed dacoity on 27.02.2010 by removing the ATM machine from the ATM cabin after breaking taken away the currency and thrown the ATM machine at village Kanheli ganda nala Rohtak. The judgment and conviction does not require any interference.