LUCKNOW, April 2 -- The street smarts of a Lucknow man saved him from losing money to an ATM burglar while also leading to the latter's police arrest.

On Saturday, when Jitendra Srivastava, the complainant, went to an ATM kiosk near Ghazipur police station in Indira Nagar's B-block, he saw a man trying to tamper with the machine there. Alert, he downed the kiosk's shutter, capturing the burglar inside, and called the police for help immediately. "Without wasting any time, I closed the shutter from outside and informed the police," the complainant told police.

According to police, when they reached the spot, they first nabbed Amit, 31, who hails from Loni in Ghaziabad. The police made the accused call his partner Saddam, 27, for help. Se...