Three held in ATM theft case in Palwal

Palwal, June 12

Claiming to have cracked the ATM theft case of Rs 36.54 lakh within 24 hours, the district police have arrested three persons in this regard.

An amount of Rs 27 lakh was also recovered by cops. SP Deepak Gahlawat said while two of the accused, identified as Neeraj and Mithun Kumar, both residents of Gobindpuri in New Delhi, were employees of SIS Cash Service Private Limited, which had been given the contract of transferring or loading money into the ATM by the bank, the third accused, identified as Bharat, was a friend of Neeraj but working with a private builder in New Delhi.

He said the accused, arrested on Friday, had removed Rs 36.54 lakh from the ATM located near the Old GT Road here on the night of June 9 after it was loaded by the team. He said while the team which had arrived here to load the money into the ATM comprised Neeraj, Mithun, Kishori Lal, Amol Singh and Pramod Kumar, the money was taken out by Neeraj, who stayed on the premises on some pretext.

Manmohan Singh, manager of the company, was informed about the incident and he found the money from the ATM missing the next morning. — TNS