Coimbatore: A 19-year-old guest worker was arrested on Wednesday for attempting to steal money from an automated teller machine (ATM) of a public-sector bank by breaking it open at Nehru Nagar on Kalapatti Road here in the early hours of Monday.
The Peelamedu (crime) police identified the accused as M Mohammad Sahjad, a native of Saharsa district in Bihar.
A construction worker, he had been staying at a work site on Tex Park Road at Nehru Nagar for the past two years.
An investigation officer said the guest worker had visited the ATM of the State Bank of India (SBI) at Nehru Nagar around 1.50am on Monday and attempted to steal money by breaking the machine’s digital lock with a hammer. “While he damaged the digital lock, he failed to open the same and had to leave the place empty-handed.”