Police crack Pehowa ATM theft case
Kurukshetra, August 7
The police have claimed to have cracked an ATM theft case and recovered around Rs 1.13 lakh from six members of an inter-state gang involved in ATM, buffalo and vehicles theft cases.
The suspects were identified as Farman, Rukamdin, Jisan, Zabir and Iqram, residents of Saharanpur, and Gulsher of Yamunanagar. A case was registered at the Pehowa police station on February 24 on the complaint of Anil Kumar, area manager of AGS Company, looking after SBI ATMs.
He reported that some unidentified men took away an ATM containing over Rs 14 lakh from Pehowa in the wee hours on February 24.
“During investigation, we came to know that the suspects involved in ATM theft cases were lodged in jails of Sahranapur, Jind and Kurukshetra. They were produced in court, which sent them to three-day police remand on August 4,” said SP Astha Modi.
“During remand, they admitted hte crime. They admitted that they had a gang which was involved in cases of theft of ATMs, buffaloes, trucks and truck parts in districts of Haryana and Punjab,” the SP said. They were produced in court today, which sent them to judicial custody. — TNS
