Eleven members of an inter-state gang involved in loot of ATMs were arrested in Raghunathpalli area of Odisha's Sundargarh district today, a police officer said.
"We have busted the gang, whose members belong to Bihar and Jharkhand," Rourkela SP Uma Shankar Dash told reporters.
The gang was also active in other states like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, he said, adding they looted ATMs in 14 districts of Odisha.
Sixteen mobile phones, Rs 4,20,000 in cash, two laptops and 95 ATM cards, among other items, were recovered from their possession, police said.
Preliminary investigation showed that the gang members used a modern technology called 'skimming' and targeted ATMs located in isolated places, and had looted over Rs 1 crore, the SP said.
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