Video: After Vijay Mallya, now mice dupped SBI, crawl into ATM and chew cash Rs 12 lakh in Assam; Tweeple calls it a surgical strike

In a bizarre incident, mice crawl into SBI ATM and chewed away cash amounting to approx Rs 12 lakh 38 thousand from inside an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) in Assam's Tinsukia Laipuli area. As per reports, cash amounting to Rs 29.48 lakh were deposited inside the ATM by the private security company on 19 May. After that, the machine had gone out of service on May 20, according to the local newspaper.

Global Business Solutions, the company that runs the ATM, had allegedly refilled the ATM with Rs 29 lakh on May 19, a day before the ATM stopped working, the Indian Express reported.

Subsequently, on June 11, the private company had re-opened the ATM and came to knew about the shocking truth. They realised that the whole sum of Rs 12.38 lakh has been shredded to pieces by mice. Most notes were in the denomination of Rs 500 and Rs 2000.

The heap of money is suspected to have been shredded by mice that had somehow managed to enter the machine and chewed it. An FIR has been lodged with Tinsukia police and investigation into the matter is in process.
A bank official said they were able to save ₹17 lakh.

SBI officials were able to retrieve about Rs 17 lakh from the compromised ATM. However, the incident and the delay in fixing the ATM has led to suspicion. An FIR has been lodged with Tinsukia police by SBI.