The police arrested four ATM looters and recovered cash amounting to Rs 2.47 lakh, five stolen computers, a few computer devices, a gas cylinder and a cutter, a pipe and other instruments used for the crime.
The accused persons were presented in court on Tuesday and the main accused was taken in police remand for more investigation.
Briefing to mediapersons, Jagatsinghpur SP Prakash R informed that probing the alleged ATM loot incident at the Indian overseas Bank [IOB] at Mulisingh village under Tirtol area on May 11, the police had picked up one Asit Kandi alias Silu from Chhapada village here. During police custody, Silu had disclosed the modus operandi of the ATM loot and also about other accomplices.
later, the police had arrested one Susant Sahoo of Dhuainpari village and both had confessed to the crime. They disclosed before the police that after stealing computers they were selling them at Bhubaneswar.
Susant was the mastermind of the ATM loot incident. He called one Biswajit Das, a wielder mechanic from Jajpur area and one Subhrajit Parida and planned looting the IOB ATM counter at Mulisingh.
They reached at Mulisingh village in a hired Bolero around 2.30 am accompanied by six persons. First, they entered the ATM counter, painted color on the CCTV camera and then started cutting the ATM box after locking the shutter outside. After they successfully separated the cash box from the ATM counter, they looted cash of around Rs 11.29 lakh and distributed the cash equally among themselves and paid Rs 75,000 to the Bolero driver.