Inside job: How a police constable 'trained' gang for Bengaluru's biggest cash van robbery

BENGALURU: Six states, 200 cops, a upland of telephone information and CCTV footage dump, and 72 hours of monolithic hunt. Plus quality intelligence. With this, Bengaluru constabulary person arrested six persons, including a constabulary constable, and recovered Rs 6.29 crore of the Rs 7.11 crore spirited distant from a slope van connected Nov 19.The arrested see Annappa Naik of Govindapura constabulary presumption successful the eastbound division; Xavier, a erstwhile worker of CMS Cash Management Services, which runs currency vans; Gopal Prasad, successful complaint of transport vehicle; their friends Naveen, Nelson and Ravi.The pack had executed a near-flawless, insider-assisted daring daylight heist: Three months of planning, 15-day recce, chose spots extracurricular CCTV coverage, aggregate vehicles with fake fig plates, and communicated successful antithetic languages via WhatsApp calls to debar detection.

Police commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh said the transgression — committed connected Dairy Circle flyover, a shadiness constabulary jurisdiction — was reported 2 hours aboriginal with incorrect coordinates, robbing cops of the golden-hour advantage.Personnel from Bengaluru’s Central Crime Branch and South part were sent retired to Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. The 3 conspirators Annappa, Xavier and Gopal Prasad — each from Bengaluru — were arrested based connected CCTV investigation and Rs 5.76 crore was recoveredfrom them.

3 nabbed from Hyd lodge

Based connected their information, their 3 different accomplices were nabbed from a lodge successful Hyderabad and Rs 53 lakh was recovered. Police are connected the way of 2 much suspects believed to beryllium portion of a sixto eight-member pack and are yet to retrieve Rs 82 lakh, the past missing tranche.Constable Naik allegedly trained the radical successful executing the transgression without leaving casual clues, portion the CMS transport in-charge provided realtime question details of the currency van. Xavier received the currency erstwhile the pack exited the city. An SUV utilized successful the transgression was recovered successful Chittoor district, containing breached currency chests.Commissioner Singh flagged lapses astatine CMS, stating RBI guidelines for currency proscription were violated. He said helium would urge cancellation of the firm’s licence.