Odisha police arrests inter-state ATM looter gang head in Uttarakhand

By OST Bureau

BHUBANESWAR, MARCH 26: Inter-state ATM looters’ gang leader Ajay Choudhury has been arrested in Uttarakhand by the Bhubaneswar Commissionerate Police for looting more than Rs 48 lakh from five ATM machines in Puri, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar.

Informing newsmen about the arrest at the DGP camp office in Bhubaneswar, Odisha Director General of Police (DGP) KB Singh on Sunday said teams of the Commissionerate Police were undertaking raids at different parts of the country to arrest the other members of the ATM looters’ gang.

The police has seized one Apple laptop, hard disk and three mobiles from the possession of Ajay Choudhury, a resident of Rudrapur in Uttarakhand.

The DGP added Ajay’s six bank accounts having Rs 8 lakh deposits and one bank locker were also freezed by the Commissionerate police.

Notably, Ajay was jailed in 2014 in an ATM skimming case. Besides, he was allegedly involved in a similar kind of offence in Lucknow in 2016.

Ajay had also tried to loot from two ATM machines in Cuttack and one in Old Town area in Bhubaneswar, but was unsuccessful, said the DGP at the press meet where Police Commissioner YB Khurania and Cuttack DCP were present.