2.3. On 21.10.2013, when P.W.18 was on routine vehicle check-up on Vadacherry Road, two persons came on a motorcycle, bearing registration No.TN 50 Z 6546, and when he intercepted them, they abandoned the vehicle and tried to run away (those two persons were later on identified as these two accused). P.W.18 gave a chase. The second accused scaled down a compound wall of a school and while jumping, he fell down and sustained injuries. P.W.18 arrested the second accused and registered a case in Crime No.1233 of 2013. He forwarded the second accused to Mannargudi Hospital with a medical memo, for treatment, from where, he was shifted to Tanjore Hospital, for treatment. He altered the case into one under Sections 452, 342, 307, and 302 IPC. On the arrest of the second accused, he gave a voluntary confession in the presence of P.W.9 and another witness. P.W.18 recovered a piece of gold chain, which the second accused produced from his pocket. He recovered a T-Shirt also. Motorcycle bearing registration No.TN 50 Z 6546 was brought to the police station and from and out of the same, a knife was recovered. Then, he forwarded the second accused to the Court, for judicial remand. The first accused had surrendered before the Court on 31.10.2013 at 03.00 p.m. P.W.18 took police custody of the first accused on the orders of the learned Judicial Magistrate. While in custody, in the presence of P.W.12 and another witness, the first accused gave a voluntary confession, in which he disclosed the place where he had hidden the piece of gold chain. In pursuance of the same, he took the police and the witnesses to the place of hideout and produced the same. In the disclosure statement, the first accused also disclosed the place where he had hidden a knife. In pursuance of the same, he produced the knife. P.W.18 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/ recovered the knife and the T-Shirt belonging to the first
