Bhubaneswar: Practically 10 days after a gang of robbers uprooted an ATM in Indira Colony right here and extracted Rs 20.30 lakh from it earlier than dumping your entire construction close to Daya river, police on Saturday arrested two individuals, together with a Bangladeshi nationwide, on this connection.
The accused had been recognized by the police as Khokan Molla (35) from Mallia Rajapur village in Bagerhat district of Bangladesh and Mijanur Rehman Molla (39) from Basanti village in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district. The duo was arrested in Bangalore. 4 of their accomplices, who're reportedly from Bangladesh, are on the run.
The police mentioned they'd no clue in regards to the masked robbers besides a brief CCTV footage of the SBI ATM. The accused broken the CCTV cameras, uprooted the ATM weighing greater than three quintals utilizing fuel cutters and decamped with your entire construction in a stolen van on the intervening evening of April 4 and 5.
The police received very important clues in regards to the accused from Delhi Police. “We examined the modus operandi of the Bhubaneswar ATM loot and verified whether or not comparable crimes had been reported from elsewhere within the nation. We got here to know that the Delhi Police just lately arrested a gang of criminals, together with a number of Bangladeshi nationals, which executed such an ATM loot within the nationwide capital and Goa,” commissioner of police Saumendra Priyadarshi mentioned.
Sources mentioned the commissionerate police stayed in contact with the Delhi Police and gathered particulars of the gang concerned within the Indira Colony ATM loot case. The robbers, who had been arrested by the Delhi Police, helped the cops in Bhubaneswar verify the identities of the accused.
The police commissioner mentioned the stolen cash couldn't be recovered because the accused had already routed it to Bangladesh by means of their aides. “We'll take them in police remand for additional interrogation. We'll learn how they entered India from Bangladesh,” Priyadarshi mentioned.