Held in AP, 2 accused in Usgao ATM theft case brought to Goa

Ponda: Ponda police on Thursday nabbed two men from Bangladesh allegedly involved in the ATM robbery at Tisk-Usgao in Ponda on August 18. Gannavaram police from Andhra Pradesh’s (AP) Krishna district had arrested them and a Ponda police team brought them to Goa on Thursday.
While AP police have arrested two, four others are still at large. Both accused have been remanded in five-day police custody by a Ponda court.
Ponda DySP C L Patil said that the accused had told AP police that they had purchased gold of Rs 5 lakh with the money robbed from the ATM at Usgao. The gold is presently in the custody of AP police.
The robbers had decamped with over Rs 13 lakh from the bank ATM machine.
AP police said that the accused, Jahangir Islam, 32, and Shaikh Nadeem Khan, 52, both natives of Bangladesh, had had been living in Hubballi, Karnataka. “When we verified the CCTV footage from a Hubballi hotel, it was confirmed that they were the same men involved in the Usgao ATM robbery,” Patil said.
A gang of six masked robbers had detached two ATMs of two different bank kiosks at Tisk-Usgao and decamped with them early August 18. Both the ATMs were later found abandoned at Piliyem-Dharbandora.
The thieves could, however, rob the money from only one of the two ATMs.
Another similar robbery attempt was made in Gannavaram. However, a police constable had foiled the robbery bid. The gang had even attacked the constable. The AP police succeeded in nabbing two of the six accused.