New Delhi: A surprising incident occurred in Maharashtra which lured a lot of people to withdraw money from the ATM on Wednesday. A man was startled after he received extra money for the machine while he tried to withdraw just Rs 500. He got five currency notes of ₹500 denomination from the cash dispenser in Maharashtra's Nagpur district.


He repeated the process and again got ₹2,500 while trying to withdraw ₹500. This happened on Wednesday at the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of a private bank in Khaparkheda town, located around 30 km from Nagpur city. 




The news spread like wildfire and soon a huge crowd gathered outside the ATM centre to withdraw cash. Later, a bank customer alerted local police, who rushed to the spot and shut the ATM centre, and informed the bank, an official from Khaparkheda police station said. 


The ATM was dispensing extra cash due to a technical glitch, he said. The currency notes of ₹500 denomination were erroneously kept in the ATM tray meant to dispense notes of ₹100 denomination, the official said. No case has been registered so far in this connection, he added. 


Meanwhile,  a 57-year-old senior executive of a housing finance firm in Mumbai was allegedly duped of Rs 2.06 lakh after a woman and some other persons threatened to make his video, shot in a compromising position, viral on social media, police said on Thursday.

One of the blackmailers also posed as a Delhi police official, they said.

Last Saturday, the man received a WhatsApp message asking if he was interested in "video sex", an official from Bandra police station said. When the man agreed, he received a video call showing a woman in a compromising position, and he was then asked to undress.

Later, the man start getting various calls from some people, threatening that they would inform his family about his video shot in an objectionable state, the official said.

Another person, who identified himself as Vikram Rathod and working with the Delhi police's crime branch, also allegedly threatened to frame the man in this connection, the official said.

A woman also called up the man and said she will make his video viral on social media, if he did not pay the amount demanded by them. 


(with PTI inputs)