In two separate cases of attempt to robberies at ATMs, some unidentified miscreants mowed down a guard to death in Bnganga locality, while in another incident, a gang of ATM robbers uprooted an ATM machine in Rajendra Nagar area. The miscreants however, fled by after hearing noise of a police vehicle.
The first incident took place under Banganga police station area where some miscreants hacked to death a security guard in an attempt to loot an ATM in Nandbagh colony located in Banaganga locality. The incident took place at 4 am in the wee hours of Tuesday morning when a passersby found the security guard Anshul Sharma lying dead in a pool of blood inside the ATM booth with blood splattered on the ATM booth wall and informed about the matter to the police. By the time police arrived at the incident site, a large number of crowd had gathered there.
After being informed CSP Ajay Jain and Banganga TI Vinod Dikshit also reached the incident site to take stock of the situation. After thorough inspection of the ATM booth, Banganga TI informed that prima facie it appeared that both the deceased and the miscreants had a fight before the miscreants knifed to death the security guard. later body of the deceased was sent to hospital for postmortem. Meanwhile, Banganga police registered the case against unidentified miscreants and launched manhunt to nab the accused.
In a related incident, some miscreants attacked an ATM booth of the SBI at Silicon City in Rajendra Nagar. According to police, the miscreants arrived at the ATM booth in Silicon City in a Trevera car. Before uprooting the ATM machine, they broke open the window glass of the ATM booth, covered the CCTV camera inside the ATM booth. Thereafter, they uprooted the ATM machine, brought it out of the booth. However, before they could have fled with the ATM machine in their Travera car, they heard the noise of a police. As a result of this, they fled the incident site, leaving the ATM machine outside.