The Commssionerate Police on Friday busted an ATM battery looter gang and arrested four persons involved in the crime from different locations of the city. As many as 60 batteries and two stabilizers were seized from their possession worth around Rs 4 lakh.
The laxmisagar police station Inspector-in-Charge Kishore Chandra Mund said the arrested persons, Deepak Kumar Mohapatra of Old Town area, Prasant Kumar Panda of Jayadurganagar in Chintamaniswar area, Nityananda Das of Sikharchandi slum in Patia in Bhuabneswar and Tabarak Hussain of Masjid Road in Zobra in Cuttack district were forwarded to court.
“On October 1, we have arrested six persons on the charge of looting 20 ATM batteries worth Rs 1.2 lakh. Basing on their statement during the interrogation we came to know that more people were involved in the crime and a racket is functioning for the purpose whose main target is to loot ATM batteries. We formed a special squad to nab them. The arrested miscreants have looted batteries from ATM counters of PNB, ICICI, SBI, Axis and other banks from different locations in the city,” said Mund.