Bangalore: The deadline given by police in Bangalore for all ATMs to have security guards expired at 4pm today. The police and Karnataka Home Minister had made it clear that ATMs that failed to meet security requirements that include a guard, CCTVs and an alarm would not be allowed to operate after a brutal attack on a woman inside an ATM on Tuesday.

A TV channel  visited the ATM where the attack took place, situated right in the heart of the city, opposite the City Corporation buildings. A security guard was present; he had been posted there three days ago. But he didn’t even have a lathi, and told us his employers had said that one would be provided.

The man who carried out the attack is still at large. His face is seen clearly in the CCTV footage that captured the crime. The woman’s phone, which he had snatched, surfaced in Hindupur in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.

And now, CCTV footage has surfaced in Andhra Pradesh that shows a man bearing stark stark resemblance to the accused. This man, seen inside an ATM in Kadiri, is seen wearing the same shirt and even carrying, what appears to be, the same bag as the accused did on the day of the brutal assault inside the Bangalore ATM. There were even reports that the accused had used the ATM cards of a woman in Andhra Pradesh who had been attacked and later died.

Police in Bangalore have not confirmed the information.

The woman who was attacked in Bangalore, Jyothi Uday, is still in hospital in the Intensive Care Unit or ICU. She underwent brain and plastic surgery but doctors believe that she will make a full recovery.