Mumbai: The two accused Jagdish Patel aged 34 and Ritesh Barge aged 32 former ATM technicians by proffession were arrested by Mumbai police after ten days of investigation in Rs 28 lakh ATM heist at SRP Camp in Goregaon near Western Express Highway on March 10.
The accused told cops that after they were fired they ran out of money and committed the crime.
Both the accused had passwords while working for the companies to feed money for SBI ATM centres.
Mumbai Police officials were on hunt from last ten days to solve the ATM robbery case.
The accused were even aware that CCTV cameras were not working at the ATM centre and therefore the cops were clueless.
The cops in their investigation found that it has to be an insider’s job who may be familiar with the ATM’s functioning.
They did not even damage the ATM machine and removed the cash. The cops found that accused knew the password of the ATM machine to get the cash.
The cops got names of two companies who feed money into different ATM machines of the SBI bank. The two companies had recently merged and therefore many of the employees were fired.