25-year-old service engineer held for looting three ATMs

August 23, 2015

Kasaragod, Aug 23: Exposing the chinks in entrusting private agencies with setting up and maintaining hundreds of ATMs attached to leading banks, police in a deft operation arrested a service engineer throwing light into the looting of Rs.3.50 lakh from three ATMs in recent months in the district.

C.G. Vinod, 25, working as service engineer of a Kochi-based firm engaged in setting up ATM counters for various public and scheduled banks, was arrested in connection with disappearance of Rs.1 lakh from an ATM counter attached to the Canara Bank’s Badiadukka branch on May 15.

The youth, on interrogation by a police team led by Kasaragod Circle Inspector P.K. Sudhakaran, confessed to have looted Rs.50,000 from Kerala Gramin Bank’s Udinoor branch in March and Rs.2 lakh from SBT’s Kanhangad branch in June last year.

Vinod, hailing from Aluva, was arrested on Friday and remanded to judicial custody after being produced before the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court here on Saturday.

Vinod, entrusted with the maintenance works of ATM counters of select banks in Kannur and Kasaragod, managed to loot the bank by pocketing duplicate keys and recollecting the digital passwords with the senior bank officials in whose presence the snags developed in ATMs were rectified, the CI said.

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Air India Express brings back Mangaluru–Muscat direct flights from March 2026

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December 15,2025

Mangaluru, Dec 15: Air India Express has announced that it will resume direct flight services between Mangaluru and Muscat from March 2026, restoring an important international air link for passengers from the coastal region.

Airport authorities said the service will operate twice a week—on Sundays and Tuesdays—from March 1. The initial flights are scheduled on March 3, 8 and 10, followed by March 15 and 17, with the same operating pattern to continue thereafter. The flight duration is approximately three hours and 25 minutes.

The Mangaluru–Muscat route was earlier operated under the 2025 summer schedule, with services beginning on July 14. At that time, Air India Express had operated four flights a week before suspending the service.

Officials said the summer schedule will come into effect from March 29, after which changes in flight timings and departure schedules from Mangaluru are expected. Passengers have been advised to check the latest schedules while planning their travel.

The resumption of direct flights to Muscat is expected to significantly benefit expatriates, business travellers and others, further strengthening Mangaluru’s air connectivity with the Gulf region.

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