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.

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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. 

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Published By : Press Trust Of India

Published On: 11 June 2020 at 18:53 IST