Coimbatore
Six people involved in the ATM theft case in nearby Tirupur were arrested on Tuesday and remanded to custody, police said.
A four-member masked gang, which could not steal the cash as they tried to unsuccessfully break the ATM of Bank of Baroda on Tirupur-Uthukuli Road took it away by dragging it out of the kiosk with the help of a vehicle and later abandoned near Perundurai in Erode district.
Police with the help of CCTV footage managed to trace a container bearing Haryana registration near Karungalpalayam inr Erode on Monday evening.
They cordoned off a godown there and arrested six people.
Police also seized Rs 69,210, two country-made pistols, nine cartridges, a gas welding machine, gas cutter, oxygen cylinder and some clothes.
They were later produced before court in Uthukuli and remanded.
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