Bangalore: Bangalore Police on Sunday shut down 1,037 ATMs in the city after the banks failed to comply with the police directive to provide security guards at ATMs. Police began inspecting the estimated 2,900 ATMs to ensure that the banks had posted security guards and installed CCTV cameras and alarm systems as the three-day deadline for them to do so expired at 4 p.m on Sunday. Police had set the deadline after a recent incident in which a bank employee Jyothi Uday, was attacked inside a kiosk on November 19 by an unidentified assailant, who is yet to be nabbed.Police Commissioner Raghavendra Auradkar said, police were shutting down kiosks that did not have security.Some banks voluntarily closed down their unguarded ATMs, even as other banks said they would hire security guards by Monday.
