In the wee hours of Thursday, when almost everyone was indoors owing to the lockdown and just-passed cyclonic storm Nisarga, a patrolling van in Kandivli East was hunting for an inebriated man who had just torn down an ATM to retrieve his stuck debit card.

The Mumbai Police Control Room (PCR) received a call around 12.38 am from a person, who told them that a man was smashing an ATM at Centrium Mall in Lokhandwala Complex. The PCR alerted the Samata Nagar patrolling cops, who rushed to the site, but no one was there.