The Samta Nagar police have arrested three people who had tried to rob a cash loader outside a Vijaya Bank ATM at Lokhandwala in Kandivali east last fortnight. mid-day had reported this, ‘The robbery bid an ATM guard, and his rifle, foiled,’ on November 27. The accused had run away after a guard pointed his rifle at them. The police have recovered two bikes and two country-made pistols from the arrested accused, identified as Shivam Mishra 20, Mohammed Nirale, (21) and Garfield Anthony Menjes (45).

The police had filed an FIR after two members of the Lokhandwala Residents’ Association (LRA), Shishir Shetty and Shaukat Siddique, informed the Samta Nagar police about it.