Miscreants failed in their attempt to loot an ATM as a siren installed in the ATM counter blew, alerting the locals and police in Barbil. Barbil PS IIC Sushanta Kumar Dash revealed that on June 30 night, the accused attempted to loot cash from the SBI ATM counter at Thankurani Bazar near NMDC around 10 km away from Barbil by trying to break open the ATM with a hammer. But soon a siren blew and seeing the patrolling police reach there, the miscreants immediately fled taking with them the broken ATM.
IIC Dash further added that in that night he had also received a phone call from SBI head office Mumbai and after that he contacted the patrolling team to take prompt action.
After discussing with SBI Manager Barbil Branch Sushanta Kumar Nayak and going through CCTV footages, the police raided at different places and were able to arrest culprit with 24 hours.
The arrestees were identified as Babu@ Samuel Munda ( 22) and Bhagwan Das( 26), a native of Thankurani. The police suspected involvement of another person in crime and launched a manhunt to nab him.