Bidar police bust inter-state ATM robbery gang that stole Rs 1.58 crore from three states
Bengaluru: An inter-state robber gang from Mewat in Haryana which had looted 12 ATMs in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana was busted with the arrest of three members, police said on Wednesday.
The Mewati gang had stolen Rs 1.58 crore cash from various automated teller machines (ATMs), police said.
Those arrested have been identified as Shahid Kamaal Khan (45) of Navali in Nuh, Alim Akbar Khan (26) of Bhango in Nuh and Ilyas Abdul Rehman (45) of Mathepur in Palwal, Haryana.
These people would move around in a car and break ATMs using gas cutters and machine tools including spanners. A team comprising police personnel from Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra is being sent to Haryana to arrest the four absconding people, Bidar Superintendent of Police Chennabasavanna Langoti told reporters.
''We have produced the arrested persons in court and taken them into police custody. Those who harboured them have also been booked as accused in this case,'' Langoti said.
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According to him, the criminals would flee to Osmanabad (Dharashiv) district on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border after committing the crime, where they would meet in a shed on the outskirts and hatch their next plan.
''We have recovered Rs 9.5 lakh from them but the total loot is Rs 1.58 crore. I have spoken to the SPs of Osmanabad in Maharashtra and Ranga Reddy district in Telangana. A special police team of the three districts will be sent to Haryana to arrest the absconding accused and recover money from them,'' the SP said.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
