ATM cash van driver escapes with `54 lakh

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Policemen cordon off the cash van found abandoned at Raigarpura in New Delhi on Wednesday.

The driver of a van belonging to an ATM cash replenishment agency allegedly fled with `54 lakhs when two of his colleagues were loading money in an ATM in Karol Bagh area of Central Delhi on Wednesday morning.
A senior police official said that the incident occurred at around 11 am when the cash van reached an Axis Bank ATM at Fateh Singh Road with two gunmen, a cash loader and the driver. The accused driver has been identified as Sanjay.
The gun men and the cash loader took a box containing `29 lakhs to load in the ATM and the remaining was locked in a steel box with the driver at the wheels. While the duo was busy loading cash in the ATM, the driver of the van sped away the vehicle along with the money, the police said.
“The driver fled from the spot along with the van and box containing money. We later recovered the vehicle and empty box from Raigarpura area. The lock of the steel box was broken and the cash was missing. Raids are being conducted to nab the driver,” said a police official.
An FIR under Section 406 (criminal breach of trust) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered at the Karol Bagh police station of Central Delhi. The van, the guard, the cash loader and the driver belong to Cash Management Services (CMS) Company, the police said.
The guard and the cash loader are also being questioned to ascertain whether they were in anyway involved in the incident and deliberately allowed the driver to flee with the cash, a senior police official said.
Later in the day, Axis Bank issued a clarification that neither the cash van nor the driver belonged to it and the FIR too has been filed by the cash replenishment agency CMS.
Meanwhile, A 58-year-old woman was found strangled to death in Neb Sarai area of south Delhi on Wednesday morning.
According to the police, the woman, identified as Kashmere Devi, was a class four employee with civic agency. She lived with her sons in J Block Tigri area.