Miscreants decamp with ATM, set it ablaze in Anantapur district

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Unidentified burglars reportedly decamped with the ATM of a nationalised slope successful Bukkarayasamudram mandal office aboriginal connected Wednesday. The miscreants allegedly broke unfastened the chest, looted the money, and aboriginal acceptable the instrumentality connected occurrence astatine Akuledu colony successful Singanamala mandal.

The ATM centre was loacated adjacent Bukkarayasamudram constabulary station. Police said that a mates of motorists and immoderate different vehicles reportedly passed successful beforehand of the centre portion the miscreants were committing the offence.

According to the police, astatine slightest 3 individuals arrived adjacent the ATM centre successful a pickup motortruck astir 2.04 a.m. Initially, 1 of them entered the centre, portion the operator parked the conveyance a abbreviated region away. Sometime later, aft switching disconnected the lights astatine the centre, different idiosyncratic entered the centre portion the operator brought the conveyance and parked it successful beforehand of the building. The accused past tied a agelong enactment to the ATM machine, pulled it out, and took it distant successful the vehicle.

In the aboriginal hours, locals of Akuledu colony recovered a burnt ATM instrumentality successful the agriculture fields and informed the police. According to the constabulary astir ₹18 lakh currency was stolen from the machine.

Superintendent of Police (SP) P. Jagadeesh informed that peculiar teams person been formed to nab the accused and they were analysing method grounds and CCTV footages.

Meanwhile, constabulary said that a akin theft had taken spot successful Dharmavaram successful neighbouring Sri Sathya Sai territory a mates of days ago.

Published - June 17, 2026 08:42 p.m. IST

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