Gang of ATM thieves nabbed - they had looted 14 ATMs in 18 days

It was a gang of daring ATM thieves who had robbed 14 ATMS within a period of just 18 days and siphoned way nearly one crore of rupees. The 30-year-old young man who is suspected to be the kingpin of the gang was arrested in Dhanbad, 269-Km from Calcutta as he was boarding the Rajdhani Express.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 26 May 2016.

The thefts were carried out between May 1 and May 18 in Calcutta, Barrackpore, Howrah and North 24-Parganas. It was the assembly elections when the police had been diverted to take care of poll related activities. All but two of the ATMs that had been targeted belonged to nationalised banks and none of them had guards.
Their modus operandi was to move from one location to another in a hired four-wheeler. They carried with them an oxygen cylinder, a small stove and steel-cutting equipment. One member of the gang would get off the car and pull the shutter of the ATM half down - that was to mislead anyone watching by giving an impression that the ATM was being refilled. Once inside, the man would switch off the CCTV camera. By then, the others would join him and they would split open the ATM vault with a gas cutter.


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