A robbery bid of ATM was foiled by Dial 100 patrolling late in the night at Parwalia area. Miscreants also fired in air and escaped from the spot. At the time of the incident ATM was holding Rs 13 lakh cash.
Even after several meeting with bank officials on making ATM more safe and secure banks are not willing to pay heed on suggestions by police which was clearly displayed late in the night on Monday when miscreants were trying to break ATM of SBI to reach cash but a Dial 100 police FRV spotted them which forced them to escape the spot.
Police team were not expecting pistols which were used by the miscreants to warn policemen. The policemen tried to locate the miscreants but failed due to darkness. Under the investigation the CCTV footages of the camera installed in the area to establish identities of all the miscreants has been started.
Police said that the ATM of (SBI) had over Rs 13 lakh cash at the time of incident. Interestingly concerned bank officials remained unaware till police informed them about the incident.
During the investigation police found that around 4 am on Tuesday that the miscreants closed the shutter of the ATM and made their way to the cash box of the machine using gas cutter but Dial 100 patrolling the spot reached and found that the shutter was closed in the wee hours and when they stopped to check the miscreants got alerted and escaped the ATM.