Three miscreants involved in the theft from Canara Bank ATM machine have been nabbed and recovered Rs2,14,000 from their possession, said Superintendent of Police Bhopal
(South) Anshuman Singh while speaking with the media persons on Sunday.
Singh said that the three were identified as Vikram Dwivedi, Neelesh Tripathi and Bilvan Maran employees of Right Save Guard Company. Vikram was the mastermind who planned the theft and apart from the recovered money remaining cash is at ICICI bank ATM in Jehangirbad.
He was terminated three months ago and later he planned to stole money.
Vikram provided the password to open the ATM machine to Neelesh Tripathi.
Vikram and Neelesh are residents of Rewa while Bilvan is a resident of Ratibad. From Neelesh police have recovered Rs1.5 lakh, Rs50,000 were recovered from Vikram and Rs14,000 were recovered from Bilvan.
Notably, on April 14, Rs6.8 lakh were found missing from a Canara Bank ATM at Basant Kunj and in the initial investigation police found that company employees of Right Save Guard Company were
involved in cash management of ATM were involved in the crime, as password was used to open the machine.
The theft was found after Kalyane found that the ATM ran out of cash on April 13 and when he went to check, found that the cash was missing. A complaint was lodged by Right Save Guard Company which handles the cash management services for the bank.
In the initial investigation police found that the miscreants glued paper over the camera to block recording their movements and establishing their identity.
The company officials have told the police that password of ATM machine was used to remove the money which is with the employees of the company.