Burglars take away Rs 13 lakh from ATM
ICICI Bank had replenished the vending machine with Rs 26 lakh just a day before
Burglars broke into an ATM counter in a residential area on 80 Feet Road, Koramangala, and made away with Rs 13 lakh in the wee hours of Monday.
Police said the ATM counter of the ICICI Bank was replenished with Rs 26 lakh the previous day. Usually, there are two currency chests in ATM counters and each one holds around Rs 13 lakh to Rs 15 lakh cash. The culprits have managed to break open one of the chests, but they could not open the other.
Residents of the locality blamed the bank authorities, as there was no power in the building and the passage leading to the ATM, which was running on UPS, was pitch dark. The main building was rented out to a private company and the garage was given to the bank. Once the tenants vacated, the owner wrote to the Bescom and got the electricity connections disconnected.
Besides, the ATM centre did not have any security guards posted at night. The bank had employed private security guards who worked on two shifts — from 7 am to 3 pm, and from 3 pm to 11 pm. The burglars, who had done their homework, broke into the ATM in the early hours and walked away with the cash. Since it was dark, the CCTV images would be of no use, police said.
Though the counter was burgled early in the morning, the public came to know about it only by evening when the bank authorities got an approval from Mumbai to file an official complaint.
Techie found dead
A software engineer working with Emphasis Technologies died late Sunday night under mysterious circumstances.
Nagarani, 24, who had shifted to Bangalore from her native Secunderbad in Andhra Pradesh four months ago, died at a local hospital in JB Nagar police station limits. Nagarani was staying at a paying guest accommodation in Muniswamypalya.
On Saturday afternoon, Nagarani told her roommate she would take a shower and wash her clothes before they went out for lunch. It was the last thing Nagarani told. For, the next time her friend saw her, she was lying in an unconscious state in the bathroom.
The 24-year-old girl had collapsed in the bathroom at 3.15 pm on Saturday. According to police, Nagarani did not respond when her friend knocked on the door of her room. “Her friend tried to call her out when she did not respond. She then waited for 15 minutes before alerting the PG owner, who rushed with a rope ladder to check on Nagarani,” said a police officer.
Having climbed onto the first floor, the PG owner found Nagarani lying face down on the bathroom floor. The owner and Nagarani’s friends broke open the door and rushed her to hospital, but to no avail. “Before the hospital could conduct an ECG, the victim died,” police said.
The cause of the death was not ascertained. “There were no bodily injuries; neither was anyone inside, because there were eye-witnesses who accounted for the fact that the door was broken open by the PG people. Even the food she consumed was the same as her other PG mates,” said the official.Police are awaiting Nagarani’s postmortem report and blood test results. Her parents and her brother have arrived from Secunderabad to collect her body.
