Coimbatore: Thudiangur police arrested two guest workers because they tried to open an automatic teller machine (ATM) from the Indian state bank in Rakipipalayam on Monday morning.
Arrested was identified as Chandra Sekhar Bhue, 24, both of them came from Tamparsara Taluk from Bargarh District in Odisha.
They worked as many men in a personal distillation unit here for the past three months.
The duo lives in a company hostel in Rakkipalayam.
Thudiangur police said the duo was not allowed in the dormitory when they were drunk.
So, they walked towards the main road and watched the ATM.
One of them tried to withdraw cash from the ATM, which was broken.
In anger, they damaged the engine and allegedly tried to steal cash from him.
Meanwhile, the SBI Mumbai office received a warning about burglary and reminded the Police of Periyanenickepalayam.
Inspector of Jaganathan, Prabhakaran, Tilak and the team rushed to the ATM and found two duos near the kiosk.
The police took the duo and checked CCTV recordings taken from the ATM center.
The police confirmed the identity of the duo and registered the case against them under Section 457, 380 read with 511 from the Indian punishment code.
They were returned in Judicial custody and submitted in the pollachi sub-prison.
Two guest workers were held for trying to steal from an ATM
