The six-member Bangladeshi robber gang, which had allegedly made a vain bid to loot the SBI ATM on the National Highway-16, near Gannavaram, in the early hours of August 22, also planned to loot several ATM kiosks in Vijayawada.
Members of the gang had visited Vijayawada twice in 10 days, stayed for about a week at the railway station and went around the Pandit Nehru Bus Station (PNBS), Krishna district Superintendent of Police P. Joshua told The Hindu.
The gangsters had come form Howrah to Vijayawada on August 10. The kingpin, Randa Simon, and his associate, Mohammad Jahangir, had procured a cutter and other tools from a hardware shop in the One Town area of the city. They concealed the tool kit in the cloakroom of the PNBS, Mr. Joshua said.
