KOLKATA: Cops have arrested one person for stealing a passbook printing machine, which he had thought to be an ATM. The printer belonged to a 24x7 ATM kiosk of a private bank on VIP Road.

The theft came to notice on Thursday morning when locals found the pass book printing machine inside the premises of a residential complex on VIP Road near Kaikhali, missing from the kiosk.

The bank’s branch head lodged a missing complaint at Baguiati police station and cops probing into the case scanned CCTV footage to find how the miscreants stole the machine around 2.30am early on Thursday.

Probing into the case, police arrested, Raj Sardar alias Mathor from his home at Kulberia in

and found the machine dumped in his backyard on Saturday evening.

“He has told us that he mistook it as an ATM machine and stole it. We are interrogating him further and are trying to locate his accomplices,” said a senior officer of

City Police.

He was produced before a

court on Sunday that remanded him to four days of police custody.