Police on Thursday arrested a six-member inter-State ATM looter gang in Balangir district.
The gang had allegedly looted around Rs 7 lakh by cutting an SBI ATM machine with the help of a gas-cutter at Saramuhan under the Patnagarh police station on December 16.
Special teams of Balangir police conducted raids at several places in the country to arrest the six looters.
“All the nabbed looters are from Bharatpur and Alwar districts of Rajasthan. They are involved in many inter-State ATM loots in Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana. They fixed local numbers in a speed vehicle to commit the crime in Balangir. Some of the looters had even come to Odisha by flight. We had watched their movement captured on CCTV cameras fixed at different places in Balangir,” said Balangir Superintendent of Police Rishikesh Khilari.
“We’ll apply before court to bring the looters on remand. Then, they will be interrogated and the crime scenes will be recreated to get more information about their modus operandi,” the SP added.
