Villupuram police bust gang from Uttar Pradesh involved in tampering with ATMs

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A special team of the Villupuram police on Saturday (June 14, 2025) busted a gang from Uttar Pradesh who adopted an unusual technique to carry out thefts in two ATMs in Villupuram. Four persons have been arrested in this connection.

According to police, following a complaint of theft of ₹1.65 lakh at two ATMs located at Maharajapuram and Puducherry Road on June 12, Superintendent of Police P. Saravanan constituted a special police team.

The team combed through the CCTV footage and analysed the call records of a few suspects. The police found that the suspects — Sonu (23), Sanjay Kumar (24), Siva (27) and Lav Kush (25) of Uttar Pradesh had hired a taxi from Chennai to Villupuram and stole the cash.

The gang returned to Chennai in the taxi and had boarded a train to Bengaluru. The police team followed them in a car and arrested the four at the Bengaluru railway station. The police seized ₹10,200 in cash, four mobile phones, one memory card and four ATM cards from their possession.

Police said the gang tampered with the ATM by inserting an aluminium board inside the cash dispenser, before locking it up and stole the cash stuck inside the dispenser. They have struck ATMs in Bengaluru. Each time, they managed to escape with the stolen cash; they take taxis to railway stations and then trains to their hometowns in Uttar Pradesh.

Published - June 15, 2025 01:33 pm IST