BENGALURU: More than three years after the infamous ATM attack , where a woman was brutally assaulted by a machete-wielding man in an ATM kiosk, police have arrested a man suspected to be the attacker."One Madhukar Reddy arrested by Chittoor Police has indicated his involvement in ATM case. Our team has been dispatched to interrogate," tweeted Praveen Sood , city police commissioner.Reddy was arrested in Madanapalli, in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. He is currently in the custody of Madanapilli police and a team of Bengaluru police is on its way to Andhra Pradesh to take his custody.Reddy was picked up under suspicious circumstances and during the interrogation; police was suspicious that he was the ATM attacker. The interrogation following verification led to the man confessing the attack in Bengaluru.However senior police officers said that only after forensic test can police confirm the identity of the attacker. Police have said the fingerprints recovered from the ATM, where she was attacked will be compared with the fingerprints of the man to confirm the identity of the man in custody.The arrest comes more than a year after Bengaluru police submitted a `C' report: a closure document acknowledging their inability to arrest the culprit. With a suspect in custody, police will approach the court and request reopening the case.On November 19, 2013, bank officer Jyothi Uday was hacked multiple times by an unidentified attacker in a Corporation Bank ATM at NR Square near the BBMP headquarters, in the heart of the city.Even though there were 217 murders reported in the city during 2013, but the ATM attack drew attention as gruesome CCTV images of Jyothi being attacked with a machete were shown on TV screens worldwide.The attacker entered the kiosk seconds after Jyothi went inside. He pulled down the shutter and ordered Jyothi to withdraw money and hand it over to him. When she refused, he hit her several times with a machete, snatched her mobile and left after downing the shutter.Two schoolboys who saw blood coming out of the ATM alerted the police.The manhunt for the attacker, who wore a blue striped shirt, was the second largest manhunt in Karnataka police history, after the search for forest brigand Veerappan.Following the attack, Jyothi was under treatment and didn't go to work for 87 days, as the heavy blows had resulting in a chip from her skull piercing the brain. Jyothi had to undergo a major neurosurgical operation to get the bone fragment in the brain removed and the fractured skull bones reset.She rejoined work in February 2014. Uday said she took a transfer to Bidadi and later returned to the service branch, where she had been working when she was attacked.