Hyderabad, Feb. 21 -- Moghalpura police on Friday, February 21, arrested a man for attempted robbery of an ATM at the Shalibanda branch of State Bank of India (SBI).

The accused has been identified as Honmane Kashinath, a 24-year-old who sells panipuri in front ofBalaji sweet shop in Aliabad. Kashinath was addicted to online games like Rummy and Roulette and has accumulated a substantial debt of around Rs 30 lakh by taking loans from friends and online loan applications.

In a desperate attempt to alleviate this financial burden, he resolved to rob an ATM. On the night of February 14 and 15, he broke into the Shalibanda SBI ATM using a stone and then used his hands to force open the machine. He extracted the cash box, which he subsequent...