The Jagtial district police foiled a real-life money heist when a gang attempted to flee after stealing Rs 19 lakhs from an ATM in Korutla town, Jagtial, in the early hours of Sunday.
The incident occurred at a State Bank of India ATM on Thandriyal Road in Korutla. The unidentified robbers used gas cutters to break into the ATM and steal five boxes of cash.
The attempt, however, triggered an alarm, alerting the bank staff. The staff immediately dialed 100 and called the Police. Korutla SI Satish received the call and alerted a Blue Colt patrol team near Ilapur.
Within seven minutes, head constable Medi Rajaiah, constable Gattu Srinivas, and driver Madhu, who were on patrol, rushed to the scene.
When the police arrived on the scene, the burglars who were loading the Cash boxes into their vehicle tried to flee and panicked.
Madhu, driving the police vehicle, attempted to stop them by crashing into the escapees’ vehicle from the side, throwing a robber out of the vehicle. Despite the fact that two constables pursued him, he was able to get back into the car, which had moved away from the police vehicle by then.
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In an attempt to evade the police, the thieves pushed out four cash boxes. The remaining cash box was discovered empty, with cash scattered across the road as the thieves attempted to flee, according to police.
According to reports, the stolen sum of Rs 19,00,200 was recovered.
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The police are now reviewing CCTV footage in order to apprehend the thieves, who were unable to keep the money they stole.
“We suspect the hand of some interstate gang from Haryana or Uttar Pradesh that are notorious as gas-cutting gangs. Their modus operandi is usually to load the getaway vehicle into a container to avoid detection. We suspect up to 6–7 people may have been involved as we found a couple of people hanging around suspiciously in another CCTV footage from nearby,” a police official was quoted as saying.
Criminals typically target banks or ATMs that are not protected by an alarm system. In this case, they were probably confident that they could flee before the cops arrived.
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