Ludhiana, June 3 -- Nearly a fortnight after armed robbers allegedly opened fire on a police patrol team during a failed ATM break-in near Noorwala Road, Ludhiana Police on Tuesday arrested two members of the gang and claimed to have cracked four ATM robberies across Punjab.

The arrested accused have been identified as Deepak Kumar, alias Deepu Bihari, of Amritsar and Jasminder Singh, alias Jass of Tarn Taran. According to police, the duo was part of a six-member gang that targeted isolated ATM kiosks using industrial gas-cutting equipment and carried out a series of ATM thefts across Punjab over the past year.

Addressing a press conference, commissioner of police Swapan Sharma said investigators had recovered a .32 bore pistol along wi...