Thief steals Rs1.66L from ATM using new techniques

Nagpur: An unidentified thief decamped with Rs1.66 lakh cash from an SBI ATM at Ashirwad Nagar last Saturday. He laid his hands on the cash with a unique technique causing minimum damage to the machine.
The thief took out the amount in the early hours of the day when there was no security guard. As per the CCTV footage procured from the ATM centre, the thief repeatedly removed some cash between 6am and 7.45am until machine stopped functioning.
Police said the thief is likely to be an expert well-acquainted with the system.
Wearing a mask and cap, the thief would use an ATM card and its pin to give a command of withdrawal. As the noise of counting of the cash would start, the man would insert a screw driver-like tool inside the cash shutter to stop the process and manually take the currency notes out resulting into a ‘failed transaction’ message. He repeatedly used the modus operandi to pocket the cash.
The theft came to notice after the technicians were alerted by a customer about the malfunctioning of the ATM.
It’s learnt that the thief had used an ATM card of an account holder of Bank of India from Bihar. The man had a balance of around Rs10,000. The cops said the thief must have been using a stolen or a cloned card.
Sakkardara police have registered a case of theft and are further investigation the matter.