Phagwara crime: ₹23 lakh looted from ATM

Two unidentified car-borne miscreants looted ₹23 lakh from an automated teller machine (ATM) of a bank at a village in this Punjab district in the early hours of Saturday, police said

Two unidentified car-borne miscreants looted ₹23 lakh from an automated teller machine (ATM) of a bank at a village in this Punjab district in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

The locks of the ATM cabin at Khajurala village, located along the Phagwara-Jalandhar national highway, were cut with a gas cutter. (HT File/Representational image)

Assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Mohinder Singh said the locks of the ATM cabin at Khajurala village, located along the Phagwara-Jalandhar national highway, were cut with a gas cutter.

CCTV camera footage showed two men committing the crime, he added.

“We got information about the incident from the village head,” the ASI said.

Ravi Kumar, the branch manager of the bank, who got a police complaint lodged, said the incident took place at 3.05 am.

He said there was no security guard at the branch during the night.

A case has been registered and a probe is underway, police said.