Updated 11 June 2020 at 18:53 IST
Maha: Nepalese national held for Thane ATM robbery
The Thane police's crime branch, with the help of their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday nabbed a Nepalese national, who was involved in robbing an ATM in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.
The Thane police's crime branch, with the help of their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday nabbed a Nepalese national, who was involved in robbing an ATM in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.
A gang of robbers had decamped with a bank ATM containing Rs 17.96 lakh in Dahisar village in the limits of Shil-Diaghar police station on the intervening night of June 7 and 8, assistant police inspector Sandeep Bagul said.
While four of the accused were nabbed on Tuesday, the fifth accused, a Nepalese national, fled to Uttar Pradesh, from where he planned to enter the neighbouring country, he said.
The Thane city police intimated their Uttar Pradesh counterparts and accordingly, a trap was laid on the Kanpur-Lucknow Highway and Bhima Mahabahadur Jora was nabbed from a bus, he added.
The arrested accused have been remanded to police custody till June 19 and the police were in the process of recovering the stolen money, the official said.
Published By : Press Trust Of India
Published On: 11 June 2020 at 18:53 IST