A 19-year-old arrested for attempting to cut open an ATM at Mulund last week, allegedly escaped from a police van on Tuesday. The accused was to be taken to jail along with his three associates after they were sent to judicial custody, and managed to flee outside a quarantine centre where they were to be first admitted. He has been identified as Arman Mushtaq Ahmed and a case has been registered against him at Kharghar police station. While a police officer claimed Arman was unattended in the vehicle, the official complaint said he kicked a constable and escaped.

Arrest due to technical evidence

On October 24, the Mulund police arrested four men and a minor boy for attempting to cut open an ATM machine at Mulund West, in the wee hours of October 22. Arman, a resident of Bhandup, had been given the task of keeping an eye out for patrolling cops during the theft. As they tried to cut open the ATM, it created a lot of smoke, so they abandoned the plan. The police arrested them later based on technical evidence such as CCTV footage.