Kapurthala police on Friday claimed to have busted an inter State gang of ATM robbers involved in the looting of 25 ATM machines with the arrest of six members and a cash recovery of more than 13 lakhs, two stolen cars and one motorcycle.
Senior Superintendent of Police, Sandeep Kumar Sharma said that on a tip of police arrested the accused at a police naka near Mundi maur falling in Sultanpur lodhi. Police identified the arrested accused as Charanjit Singh, Daljit Singh, Balwinder Singh, Suraj Singh all residents of Tarntaran, Jagat Narain and Manpreet Singh.
Sharma said all the accused confessed to have committed 25 robberies of ATM’s in Punjab, one in Ambala in Haryana and one in Jawalaji in Himachal Pardesh and looted a cash of more than Rs 1 crore after breaking the ATM’s with the help of tools.
Two months ago, the Kapurthala police had also busted three member interstate gang of ATM robbers involved in 55 ATM looting incidents and the said gang had looted a cash of more than Rs 3 crore. The SSP said court has attached the property of more than Rs 4 crore belonging to three members.
It was also informed that the Bholath police busted an inter district gang of highway robbers responsible for looting eleven petrol pumps on the highway. ASP Bholath, Gaurav Toora said four members of the gang have been arrested. One stolen swift car, two mobile phones, one toy pistol and some gold ornaments recovered from their possession.