Hi-Tech robbery: Match-stick used for stealing money from ATM in Jaipur

On 2nd Oct,2013

Jaipur:Vidyadhar Nagar police on Wednesday arrested two engineering students for stealing money from an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM), here. The culprits have accepted to have done 6 more robberies in the past.

 

 

The students stole Rs. 30,000 from an ATM located in Sun and Moon tower at Seekar road on Saturday.

 

 

Police constable has filed a report in Vidyadhar Nagar police station on Tuesday. Investigating officer, ASI Virendra Singh said that the arrested, Abhinav (22) and Chinmay (22) are students of a private engineering college in Hazaribagh. They have accepted to have robbed ATMs at Vidyanagar, Vaishali Nagar, C-scheme in Jaipur and Udaipur roadways bus stand and twice at Sodhala.  

 

 

Car-driver of ACP Shastrinagar, Shiv Prasad (43), Shiv Prasad caught the culprits red-handed when he had gone to an ATM at 3:35 pm on Saturday. When he gave the command to process Rs. 30,000 in one of the machines of the kiosk,  two men standing nearby told him that the machine was not functioning. He was guided to use the other machine. He immediately pressed the cancel button but the machine failed to take the command.

 

 

Shiv Prasad came out of the ATM at 3:38 pm. He received a message at 3:40 pm that Rs. 30,000 were withdrawn from his bank. He turned back to find that the two men were moving into the mall. In the police investigation, the men said that they had come to Jaipur to visit a relative. 

 

 

It was found that in the both the ATMs, match-sticks were stuck under ‘cancel’ and ‘clear’ buttons, so that both the buttons do not get pressed. So, when Shiv Prasad pressed the cancel button, the process was not cancelled and the cash were withdrawn and collected by the thieves when he had left the kiosk.

 

 

Banking IT specialists have suggested that all ATMs should have touch-screen monitors so that these incidents can be avoided. 98% of the ATMs in Jaipur do not have touch-screen facility.

 

 

ATM bank transactions take about 90 seconds time in Jaipur, while, in Delhi, to prevent robbery, this duration has been reduced to 30 seconds.

 

 

IT expert of State Bank of India (SBI), JP Jain said that technical problems will arise if the transaction duration is reduced to 30 seconds in Jaipur ATMs.