An ex-staff at an ATM cash refilling firm, along with two engineers, were arrested on the charge of stealing cash from two ATM kiosks in Dighi last month. The recovery amount is Rs66.1 lakh from them.
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“We have recovered Rs 66.10 lakh from their possession, besides a motorcycle used in the crime,” he said Pune’s Pimpri Chinchwad police chief Krishna Prakash. Prakash said
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DCP Sudhir Hiremath said, “On September 24, somebody attempted to break open the ATMs at two locations in Dighi and also stole their CPUs. Bank officials registered a theft case in this regard. Further investigation by the bank officials as well as police revealed that a huge amount of cash was stolen from the two ATMs. Since the CPUs were also stolen, the officials took time to tabulate the stolen cash.”Police then directed their attention to the CCTV footage, but failed to establish the identity of the suspects as they had put an adhesive tape on the CCTV cameras.
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“One among the accused, used to deposit the cash in the ATMs after unlocking the digital locks using the PINs. A few months back, one of them had quit his job with the company, but he was still in possession of the digital PINs. He used these PINs to commit the crime,” the police chief said.
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Accused landed in the police net during interrogation of all the current and former employees of the cash refilling firm.
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“The Talegaon Dabhade police had registered a similar theft in 2017, in which the stolen amount is still being tabulated. We think that this theft too was committed by the accused,” he said.
