Bunty Sharma and Vinayak Jadhav were inebriated when they went to the ATM booth in Kasba Peth; when the machine didn’t eject any currency, they smashed it to get the cash, cops said
Three days after they attacked a 70-year-old security guard and vandalised a machine at the Axis Bank ATM booth in Kasba Peth, in the wee hours of Monday, officials of the Faraskhana police station arrested the duo yesterday. They confessed to committing the crime under the influence of alcohol, the police said.
MiD DAY report on December 30
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The two were identified as Bunty Kanhaiyalal Narayanji Sharma (31) alias Jayprakash, a Dapodi resident who is originally from Jaipur, and his friend Vinayak Suresh Jadhav (27), a resident of
537, Kasba Peth.
The duo was remanded in police custody till January 4 by the court yesterday.
While Sharma works as a labourer at a jewellery factory in Jaipur and has cleared Std XII, Jadhav, a Std X pass-out, drives a tempo for living. Neither has a criminal record.
Inspector Bhanupratap Barge from Farashana police station said, “On that night, the two met and consumed alcohol. Jadhav was going to drop Sharma near the PMC bus stop, and from there Sharma was supposed to go home. But when they reached Kasba Peth, the two decided to drink more and visited the nearest ATM to withdraw money.”
High jinks?
Since Jadhav assumed there was enough cash in his account, they first visited the Axis Bank ATM booth. But the machine displayed that his account had insufficient funds. They then visited the DCB ATM, adjacent to Axis Bank’s. Here, too, Jadhav’s attempt to withdraw cash failed.
“The two decided to break open the ATM machine and take away the cash as they believed it was stuck inside the machine. Since there was no security guard present at DCB Bank ATM, they first tried to break open the machine with a stone. After their first attempt failed, they entered the Axis Bank booth and threatened the 70-year-old guard. The suspects locked him in the inner room and vandalised the machine to take out cash. After they failed to get money from any of the machines, the duo fled the spot,” Barge said.
When the suspects realised tha CCTV grabs showing them inside one of the booths had been published in newspapers and broadcast on news channels the day after the crime, they decided to flee the city.
While Sharma planned to escape to Jaipur, Jadhav decided to go to Mahad in Raigad.
“Our constable Sunil Pawar got a tip-off about their movements, following which they were nabbed,” Barge said.
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