Being too confident at their first success in stealing an ATM in south Delhi on Friday, a gang tried to do it again on Sunday night. The gang stole an SUV from Naraina, uprooted an ATM of a government bank, put it in the vehicle and ran away. It took the robbers barely 7-10 minutes to steal the car and uproot the ATM, which had Rs 20 lakh in it.
What they didn’t realise that the vehicle had a GPS device inside it. The owner switched off the engine as soon as he was informed that his SUV had been stolen.
The victim Harmender Singh (61), a transporter living in Rajouri Garden got to know from his security guard that his white Bolero had been stolen from outside his office in Naraina.
According to TOI, Harmender Singh stated, “A call came around 2.20 am. My son and I switched on the GPS and the vehicle was seen going towards Mayapuri. We informed the police and told them we were going to follow the SUV.”
He reiterates “When we started the search for my SUV, we were 12 minutes away from my vehicle. By the time we reached Moti Bagh, the time difference was just eight minutes. My employees then remotely switched off the SUV’s engine. We found it abandoned in Sector 13 RK Puram.”
DCP (West) Deepak Purohit, said, “A case has been registered and teams have been formed to nab the accused.”