MUMBAI: The Deonar police on Saturday arrested a 19-year-old B Com student for trying to open the Canara Bank’s ATM kiosk situated on the isolated stretch at Shankara Colony in Govandi in the wee hours on Saturday. When the cops inquired the accused Sameer Ansari whether he is trying to steal money he replied back that he is a bank technician and a thief will not steal in front of a closed-circuit television (CCTV) that is kept in the ATM centre. However the police patrolling team got suspicion and when the checked with the bank customer service centre at Bangalore found out that Ansari was calmly executing the heist in front of the cops.Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone VI) Sangramsinh Nishandar said Ansari confessed that he learned online how to open ATMs and then used that knowledge to open the Bank’s ATM kiosk. “Timely arrival of police patrolling team foiled Ansari’s robbery bid—stealing Rs7 lakhs—who remained unmoved despite seeing the cops and continued his act of opening the machine on pretext of servicing. Ansari, a Govandi resident, studied the entire mechanism how the Canara bank server links functions and are connected. After studying technical details through online over a period of just one month he finally executed his knowledge in a systematic way instead of breaking the ATM machine ,” said Nishandar.The incident occurred in between 2.20am and 3am when Ansari almost opened 75% of the ATM machine and was on the verge of unlocking the safe locker situated on the lower part of the machine with some set of keys. Cops—assistant inspector Anil Gaikwad, sub-inspector Chetan Lokhande, constables Bhaulal Kute and Prasad Raul—suspected something amiss on seeing Ansari inside the unmanned Canara bank ATM and opening the kiosk without any damage at wrong hours. “He also tore the bank’s helpline numbers which was put on wall at the centre so that no one could check out whether he is a real technician. If the patrolling team had reached 15 minutes late then Ansari could have easily fled away with Rs7 lakhs,” said he said.Ansari was found totally focused opening the machine despite the cops entered the ATM centre. “Ansari didn’t react on seeing cops. I asked him are he stealing money. He replied whether thief steals in front of the closed-circuit television and continued his act of opening the safe locker after opening the entire ATM machine front portion. He even asked us to check with the bank officials that they have assigned him to carry out service of the machine. He thought we will believe him. I thought to call the bank and finally managed to get in touch with the bank’s official situated in Bangalore and found they never assigned work of servicing after 7pm and before 7am,” Gaikwad told TOI.For two days Ansari did recce of the ATM in between 2am and 7am to check whether it is guarded by any security personnel before he executed the offence. “After opening the front part of the ATM kiosk with scissors and screwdrivers he disconnected the machines link from the bank’s server so that no one could an alert. When the cops entered the centre Ansari was trying to unlock the locker using set of keys. Normally the safe locker of the kiosks can be unlocked by the bank’s two custodians who holds the secret passwords used to unlock the locker after using keys,” said the DCP.Ansari, a final year commerce graduation and an IT vocational student, confessed that he wanted to earn fast money. He has been booked under the Indian Penal Code sections for 380 (theft) and 457 (house-breaking at night). Police are finding whether there is a role of some banker or any accomplices in aiding him in the crime.