Hyderabad: The west zone task force team of the city police on Friday arrested a car mechanic identified as Fareed Khan on charges of committing theft at Axis Bank ATM located at Road No. 1 in Banjara Hills.
Police said that Fareed Khan worked for Khan Brothers, a mechanic shop at Masab Tank. As he had borrowed money from several people, he was under pressure to repay the loans and was also eager to go abroad in search of work.
Deciding to steal as it was an easy means to gain money, he went to the ATM on the intervening night of April 24 and 25, closed the shutter from inside and disconnected the camera.
Then he broke the ATM machine with a hammer and iron rod and stole Rs 5,10,300. He concealed the money in a polythene bag and hid the same in a dustbin near his workplace, the police said.
The next day he collected the bag and spent some money. However, the cameras recorded him entering the ATM and police traced him out by Friday.
An amount of Rs 4,74,500 was recovered from his house along with the hammer and iron rod he used to break the ATM machine, the police said.
Fareed Khan was earlier arrested twice for theft of laptop and cell phones. He was handed over to Saifabad police for further action.
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