Two policemen, including one attached to an Uttar Pradesh minister, were arrested Sunday for looting Rs.9 lakh from an ATM in the state's Shahjahanpur district, police said.

A third policeman who is also involved was, however, at large and police have launched a manhunt for him, an official spokesman disclosed here.

The three policeman were found to have been directly involved in cutting open an ATM belonging to the Corporation Bank in Khrini Bagh area of Shahajanpur, 190 km from here, he said.

The three were identified as Shailendra Singh - a gunman attached with minister Avadhesh Verma, Sandeep Pawar and Sanjiv Kumar.