<p>Bengaluru: Gone in three minutes! That's all the time it reportedly took a gang of thieves, operating across borders in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka">Karnataka</a> and Tamil Nadu, to decamp with a sum of Rs 16 lakh from an ATM kiosk on Sarjapur Main Road in the early hours of Saturday.</p>.<p>Police said the gang reportedly attempted a series of similar thefts along the way.</p>.<p>Acting on a complaint lodged by the ATM's security agency, the Bellandur police have registered an FIR under Section 305 (theft in a dwelling house, or means of transportation or place of worship) and 331 (trespass or housebreaking) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in connection with the incident. </p>.<p>One of the members of the gang reportedly entered the ATM kiosk, and after forcing the machine open with a gas cutter, made away with the money, executing the entire operation in less than three minutes.</p>.Four, including minors, held for mobile phone thefts .<p>Footage recovered from the CCTV camera before its lens was blackened with paint, shows a man, his upper body draped in a shawl, in an apparent bid to conceal his identity. </p>.<p>A senior police officer investigating the incident told DH that the suspects pried the rear of the machine open and stole the cash.</p>.<p>"As soon as the machine was broken, an alarm went off and the security guard at the ATM kiosk called the police helpline, with cops at a location only six minutes away. But by the time the police arrived on the scene, the gang had driven away," the officer said. </p>.<p>Deputy Commissioner of Police, Whitefield Division, has constituted two separate teams to track the suspects down. </p>
<p>Bengaluru: Gone in three minutes! That's all the time it reportedly took a gang of thieves, operating across borders in <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka">Karnataka</a> and Tamil Nadu, to decamp with a sum of Rs 16 lakh from an ATM kiosk on Sarjapur Main Road in the early hours of Saturday.</p>.<p>Police said the gang reportedly attempted a series of similar thefts along the way.</p>.<p>Acting on a complaint lodged by the ATM's security agency, the Bellandur police have registered an FIR under Section 305 (theft in a dwelling house, or means of transportation or place of worship) and 331 (trespass or housebreaking) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in connection with the incident. </p>.<p>One of the members of the gang reportedly entered the ATM kiosk, and after forcing the machine open with a gas cutter, made away with the money, executing the entire operation in less than three minutes.</p>.Four, including minors, held for mobile phone thefts .<p>Footage recovered from the CCTV camera before its lens was blackened with paint, shows a man, his upper body draped in a shawl, in an apparent bid to conceal his identity. </p>.<p>A senior police officer investigating the incident told DH that the suspects pried the rear of the machine open and stole the cash.</p>.<p>"As soon as the machine was broken, an alarm went off and the security guard at the ATM kiosk called the police helpline, with cops at a location only six minutes away. But by the time the police arrived on the scene, the gang had driven away," the officer said. </p>.<p>Deputy Commissioner of Police, Whitefield Division, has constituted two separate teams to track the suspects down. </p>