Pune: Nigdi ATM robbery mastermind in cop net

PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on Tuesday arrested the mastermind behind the theft of a cash dispensing unit containing Rs 5.71 lakh from a kiosk at Thermax Chowk in Nigdi on June 8.
Crime branch inspector Balkrishna Sawant said the suspect, Meherbansingh Tarasingh Dangi (25) of Nigdi, hatched the plot of stealing the cash dispensing unit along with his accomplices. “Dangi had also carried out the recce of several kiosks in Chinchwad and Nigdi,” Sawant said.
He said Dangi and his accomplices stole a pickup truck from Lonikalbhor and reached Thermax Chowk. “Seeing a police vehicle near the kiosk, they dropped the idea. After sometime, they dragged out the cash dispensing unit from another kiosk in the same Chowk and fled,” he said.
The Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch on June 18 had arrested two from the gang — Ajaysingh Dudhani and Shrikant Dhotre. “The police also had recovered the unit which the gang had dumped into Mula Mutha river,” Sawant said.
Dudhani attempted suicide while in police custody.