Hyderabad Axis Bank ATM Robbery Mastermind Caught After Huge Multi State Police Chase
Hyderabad police have arrested the main planner behind a shocking Axis Bank ATM robbery after running a long search across several states. The man, identified by police as Rashid, had been running from the law after his gang broke into the cash machine and escaped with a huge amount of money. Investigators formed special teams to track his movements, using phone signals and road camera footage until they finally caught him in his hiding spot.
The robbery happened late at night when the streets were quiet and empty. The gang arrived in a car, walked inside the small ATM booth, and immediately sprayed black paint on the security cameras to hide their faces. Within a few short minutes, they used heavy gas cutters to slice through the thick metal body of the cash machine. They grabbed the cash boxes filled with fresh notes and drove away before the local security alarms could bring help to the spot.
When morning came, bank workers and local residents saw the broken machine lying in pieces and quickly called the police. Senior police officers visited the spot with forensic experts to collect fingerprints and footprints. The robbery was planned so cleanly that it showed the gang had done this kind of crime many times before. The police commissioner immediately ordered the creation of multiple special investigation teams to find the gang and recover the stolen public money.
Finding the suspects was not easy because they left very little evidence behind at the booth. The police officers started checking hundreds of hours of video from street cameras along all the main highways leading out of the city. After watching endless hours of blurry vehicle movements, officers spotted a suspicious car moving fast toward the state border just minutes after the robbery took place. This single clue gave the team their first real breakthrough.
The trail led the police team across state borders, moving through several regions as the suspect kept changing his location to confuse the authorities. Rashid did not stay in one place for more than a few hours. He avoided using his regular mobile phone, stayed in cheap roadside rooms, and took help from local criminal friends to hide. However, cyber experts working in the police control room kept finding tiny digital footprints every time he tried to contact his family or helpers.
Police records reveal that Rashid is not a new criminal but a habitual offender who has troubled police departments in northern India for a long time. He has as many as forty-six criminal cases registered against his name across Haryana and Delhi alone. His criminal file includes major charges in busy cities like Gurugram, Faridabad, and Rewari, where he had broken into other cash machines and carried out planned thefts in past years.
Local officers explained that gangs like Rashid's often travel long distances to commit crimes so that local police cannot easily identify them. They study an area for days, watch the movements of night patrol vans, pick an ATM booth that has no night guard, and finish their work in under fifteen minutes. Once they take the cash, they divide the money among themselves, split up in different directions, and run back to their home villages in other states.
The final arrest took place when the Hyderabad police team received a clear tip about Rashid's latest shelter. Officers quietly surrounded the building late in the evening so he would have no space to run. When the team moved in, he tried to resist, but the officers quickly overpowered him and took him into custody. The team brought him back to Hyderabad on a transit warrant to present him before the court and begin deep questioning.
During the initial questioning, Rashid admitted his role in planning the bank robbery and shared details about his helpers. Police officers are now working to recover the stolen cash, the gas cutting tools, and the car used during the crime. Teams are also searching for the remaining gang members who helped him during the night of the break-in, and officers say more arrests will happen very soon.
Bank officials have praised the police department for their fast action and hard work in catching such a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile, police officers have issued fresh security guidelines to all private and public banks operating in the city. Banks have been told to post active security guards at every cash booth at night, set up loud warning sirens that ring directly at local police stations, and install tamper-proof camera systems that cannot be blinded by spray paint.