State Of Punjab vs Karnail Singh on 14 August, 2003
5.0 I have heard ld. Addl. P.P. Shri Salim Khan as well as
Shri Sachin Aggarwal, Ld. counsel for both the accused persons.
I have also carefully perused the material placed on record.
6.0 The Victim Priya PW2 has deposed that on
15.03.2012 at about 8:30 a.m, she was sitting at Birla Mandir
Bus stand. At that time, two persons on a motorcycle came
from behind and she sensed that something was wrong and
tried to run. But, one of those persons snatched her gold chain
and thereafter, the robbers escaped on their motorcycle
towards PS Mandir Marg; she could not identify those two
persons, who snatched her chain. She then immediately called
her brother Shakti Singh from her mobile phone number
9968256125; her brother reached the bus stand within ten
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minutes. Her brother made a telephone call to the police from
her mobile phone. The police had arrived and she narrated the
incident to them and her statement Ex.PW2/A was recorded.
PW2 also deposed that although, she could not notice the
motorcycle number but, the people who had gathered there
gave numerical digits of the motorcycle on which the accused
persons had come. Numerical number of motorcycle i.e. 8351 is
mentioned in Ex.PW2/A. However, in the said statement it is
mentioned that PW2 had noted the number. But, in her cross-
examination by Ld. Additional PP, PW2 denied that the number
was noted by her. The fact that the motorcycle number was
noted by people gathered at the spot, has remained
uncontested. Same is also corroborated by PW2's brother PW5,
as discussed in paras infra.