2 arrested for robbing 17 lakh from ATM in Raj

Police today arrested two persons for robbing over Rs 17 lakh from an ATM of a private bank here and recovered the stolen money from them.
The two youths are identified as Imran and Akram, said Gautam Jain, SHO, Udaimandir, adding, Rs 17,61,500 was recovered from their possession which they had stolen from the ATM of the Axis bank here.
Imran was the employee of the company entrusted with the task of refilling the cash at the ATM and had got an access to the password required to open the cash tray, he said.
The two had inserted the cash in the ATM on Wednesday and somehow got an access to the password, he said.

"At about 4 AM on Thursday, he went to the ATM with his friend Akram, keyed in the password, opened the cash tray and decamped with whatever money the machine had," Jain said.