Gas cutter, cylinder, Petromax, car with fake number plate and other items have been recovered from the possession of the accused. According to the police, during interrogation, the accused told that they had learned the method of cutting ATM from YouTube.
A strange case has come to light in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand. A gang from Haryana had come to Haridwar to rob a PNB ATM. Police have arrested two accused of the gang and sent them to jail. Police investigation has revealed that the accused had learned the method of cutting the ATM from YouTube.
In Haridwar’s Kankhal police station area on Monday late night, miscreants from Karnal tried to rob a PNB ATM by cutting it with a gas cutter. There were about 25 lakh rupees in the ATM. The crime was averted due to the vigilance of the patrolling police team. Police arrested two accused from the spot, while the third accomplice fled.
Gas cutter, cylinder, Petromax, car with fake number plate and other items have been recovered from the possession of the accused. According to the police, the accused told during interrogation that they had learnt the method of cutting ATM from YouTube. SSP Pramod Doval said on Tuesday that the Kankhal police team was on patrol at around 2.30 am on Monday midnight.
When the team was going from Desh Rakshak to Dadubagh, a young man was seen running from near the ATM of Jagjitpur branch of PNB. On suspicion, the police went near the ATM and saw that the shutter was closed from outside, but sounds were coming from inside. It was told that on suspicion, the police personnel locked the shutter from outside and called the force on the spot.
After this, when the shutter was opened, two youths were found inside cutting the ATM machine with a gas cutter. Half of the machine had been cut. During interrogation, the arrested accused told that they have come from Haryana and are drug addicts. They learned the method of cutting ATM from YouTube and had done a recce of the ATM two-three days ago.
The arrested accused are 25-year-old Kartik Rana, resident of Vikasnagar, Sector-29, Panipat and 28-year-old Dheeraj, resident of Rajiv Colony, Hansi Road, Karnal. An i-20 car has been recovered from them. The number plate of the car is also fake while another fake number plate has also been recovered. Kankhal police station in-charge Chandra Mohan Singh said that a case has been registered against the accused. The search for the absconding miscreant is on.
