how 2 alert cops foiled an ATM robbery midway, caught accused red-handed with gas cutters

On March 23 this year, a gang of robbers targeted the ATM kiosk of a public sector bank on the Dehu-Alandi Road in Pune.

- GNS News Agency, J uly 8

Using gas cutters to breach the cash dispenser machine at around 2.20 am, they fled with cash amounting to Rs 16.8 lakh.A coordinated probe launched subsequently looked into multiple angles, but the police could not achieve any breakthrough. Patrolling was intensified in areas closer to the Pune-Mumbai highway and meticulous efforts were taken to cultivate ground-level intelligence on such gangs

Around 1.50 am on May 26, a patrolling team from the Dehu Road police station zeroed in on a vehicle which was suspiciously parked close to some Automated Teller Machine (ATM) kiosks in the area, the police said. When beat marshals Samadhan Patavkar and Kiran Patil approached the car, the driver started the vehicle in haste and sped towards Alandi. The officers saw that two men were sitting in the car's frontseats and a woman was in the back seat.