Bangalore: After the gruesome attack on the Corporation Bank manager Jyothi Uday at her bank’s ATM on Mission Road on November 19, all the ATMs in the city now have a security guard and CCTV cameras, but the banks may not completely abide by the security protocol stipulated by the police as a pre-condition to keep them functional.
“Security related decisions will have to be taken at the corporate level of the banks and for all ATMs in the country. We cannot revise security protocols only for ATMs in the city. Security is a law and order issue and banks alone cannot be held responsible for ensuring a foolproof security at the ATMs and branch offices,” said a senior officer of one of the largest nationalised banks.
Bangalore ranks on top as the city with highest debit card density in the country and is wooed by most banks as the most preferred destination for ATMs. But after the ATM attack the State government made it mandatory for banks to post a security guard, install CCTV cameras and burglar alarms at the ATMs, giving them 45 days to tighten security at ATMs.
Meanwhile the police have scrambled through the archives of the State crime records and have sieved through 24,000 crime records in the past four weeks in search of the accused. “There are 300 policemen in a joint operation by the city and Andhra Pradesh police, who are looking for him.
We have given wide publicity with visuals of the attack in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh and have searched more than 24,000 crime records and the finger print data, but there’s no information on the accused.
The AP police say that the attacker has committed a murder, but there is no record to establish his identity. “He seems to be felon on whom there’s no criminal record,” said a senior police officer.
