With complaints of money being spirited away from their accounts through ATM cloning coming thick and fast to the police stations, the district police team has found during its physical checking of all the 454 ATMs based in the city on Tuesday that as many as 253 of them were unguarded. It was also found that in seven of the ATMs, CCTV cameras were not operational. Investigation further revealed that two Skimmers had been kept at two SBI ATMs at Jogiwala and at Dharampur between July 8 and July 14. Notices have been served to the bank officials concerned and such information has been passed on to the RBI, Dehradun branch.
Informing this, a Dehradun-based senior police officer said that two teams have been pressed to look into the technical aspects of the crime while one team each has been deployed in Jaipur and Delhi to carry on the probe from there. Police received CCTV footage of 14 ATMs in Dehradun and the team members were reviewing it, the officer further said. Besides, police have sought help from the SBI technical teams and cyber experts on the possibility of installation of Skimmers in the ATMs.