“If We Were 30 Seconds Late…”: Telangana Police’s Dramatic Save In ATM Heist

Hyderabad:

Telangana Police today said it managed to recover all the money looted by a gang that targeted State Bank of India ATMs by arriving just in time, contrary to the pop culture caricature that always portrays them as a late force. portrays.

Jagtial Superintendent of Police Sindhu Sharma told NDTV, “If our team was even 30 seconds late, we would have lost the money.”

Around 1 am today in Jagtial town, a gang armed with gas cutters looted an ATM and within seven minutes managed to load four boxes full of cash into the boot of their vehicle. They also sprayed paint on the cameras to avoid detection.

The bank is linked by an alarm system to the nearest police station, where a policeman immediately alerted a nearby patrol, which arrived within the last 30 seconds of the crime. The ATM robbers tried to escape, but the police rammed their car into the criminals’ getaway car and caught them.

Police said the impact of the collision caused three boxes full of cash to fall out, and all the cash fell out of the fourth box, while the stampede broke out.

The police were able to recover the entire cash – Rs 19,00,200.

The police are now scanning the CCTV footage to nab the thieves, who could not keep the looted money with them.

“We suspect the hand of some interstate gang from Haryana or Uttar Pradesh who are notorious as gas-guzzling gangs. Their modus operandi is usually to load the getaway vehicle into a container to avoid detection. We suspect That can be 6-7 people.” Sindhu Sharma told NDTV, “We got involved because we found some people hanging suspiciously in another CCTV footage nearby.”

Criminals usually target banks or ATMs that are not covered by alarm systems. In this case, they were likely convinced they could flee before the police could react.