4 held for tampering ATM booth
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, May 02 2024:
City police formally arrested four non-locals for tampering an ATM booth of Manipur State Cooperative Bank (MSCB) at Thangal Keithel and withdrawing cash fraudulently, today.
The arrested persons have been identified as Narendra Pratap (30) s/o Nangoa Yadav; Himansu Singh (30) s/o Babbu; Ajeet Singh (24) s/o Jagdish and Sarvesh Singh (28) s/o Awadesh Kumar Singh.
All of them hail from Uttar Pradesh and they have been sent to judicial custody till May 6 by the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Imphal West, today.
The IO of the case submitted that the Branch Manager of MSCB lodged a written complaint with the Officer in-Charge of City police station on April 30 stating that some miscreants had fraudulently withdrawn cash from the ATM installed at the Imphal branch of the bank multiple times (from February to April) .
It is further said that a similar case of ATM tampering and fraudulent withdrawal of cash was reported from the MSCB Imphal East branch located at Porompat too and two persons involved in the theft were arrested by Porompat police on April 26 .
The IO further said that the four accused managed to withdraw Rs 3,98,000 in three months (February to April) .
All the four accused have been interrogated one after another in connection with the case and they have admitted to the charges levelled against them, added the IO .
The four accused were produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Imphal West today and the Court has remanded them to five days police custody till May 6 .