Ashoka Garden police have nabbed a 19-year-old miscreant involved in breaking the ATM of ICICI bank at 80 Ft Road on Saturday.
A complaint was lodged by executive of AGS transact technology limited company Manvendra Singh that the breaking attempt of ATM machine has been made and based on the complaint during the investigation Gopal Tripathi was nabbed and recovered lPG cylinder, cutter machine, scissor and welding machine(cutter).
The accused confessed that he lost his job two months ago and in need of money he tried to break the ATM. He told police that he has learnt this trick from internet.
The incident took place at around 2.30 in the night and at that time no security guard was present.
The accused entered the ATM and tried to reach cash box but failed in his attempt and left the ATM. In the attempt he managed to damage the upper cover protecting the ATM but failed in getting cash.
At the time of the incident security guard was not present at the ATM. The ATM does not have security guard.
Police said that in the initial investigation it was found that a youth with covered face entered the ATM and sprayed over the CCTV camera installed inside the ATM and later broke the machine and tried to make way to cash box using gas cutter but failed and left the ATM without cash.
The CCTV footage of the ATM and other nearby areas would be investigated in the further investigated. The police have registered a case under section 380 and 511 of the IPC.