Palghar, Feb 15 (PTI) Unidentified persons cut open an ATM cash chest using a gas cutter and decamped with Rs 20 lakh in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police said on Tuesday.

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The incident occurred on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in the Sativli area under the Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar police commissionarate limits.

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"Taking advantage of power cut in the Sativali area on Monday night, the unidentified thieves entered an unguarded ATM of a nationalised bank. They broke open the cash chest using a gas cutter, took Rs 20 lakh cash, and fled in a vehicle waiting for them," a police official said.

Police suspect that personnel of a cash delivery agency might have given inputs to the thieves.

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