Cops foil robbery bids in 2 separate cases

MUMBAI: Kurar Police have booked eight people, of which five were arrested during patrolling af ter their suspicious activity. Probe revealed that the gang was planning to rob an ATM in Pimpripada, Kurar Village in Malad on the night intervening Wednesday and Thursday. Police have seized materials like knives, cutters, nylon string among others. In a similar case lodged in Samta Nagar, five people were apprehended minutes before they were about to commit robberies in Kandivali (E). Samta Nagar Police received a tip-off that a gang was all set to rob in the neighbourhood and were going to assemble near Vadarpada, following which a trap was laid and the men were arrested.