Shahjehanabad police nabbed two miscreants on Sunday on the charge of their involvement in breaking Any Time Payment (ATP) machine of MPSEB office at Sultania road and escaped with Rs 1.75 lakh on October 3; police have recovered Rs 1.6 lakh from their possession.
The nabbed miscreants were identified as Mohammad Faheem Shaikh alias Babm (52) and Munne Khutra alias Abdul Kareem (70) and recovered cash, scooter and an iron rod from their possession.
The miscreants targeted ATP machine after entering the kiosk at the MPSEB office and escaped with Rs 1,75,085 cash in the machine.
In the initial investigation the two were seen in the CCTV footage that there are two miscreants who break into the kiosk and broke the machine and took the cash which was present in the machine. In the CCTV footage the timing of the burglary was around 1.30 in the night.
After the preliminary investigation the police registered a case under sections 457 and 380 of the IPC and nabbed the two accused in the further investigation.
Police said that after MPSEB staff found that the machine was targeted and cash stolen the senior officials were informed and complaint was lodged with the police.
At the time of the incident few employees were working but they failed to notice the breaking of the shutter.
Based on the complaint case was registered against the two unidentified miscreants who were seen in the CCTV footage but from the footage faces could not be recognized.
The machine was having a collection of electricity money of two days and no security guard was deployed to vigil the ATP machine.