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With the apprehension of 9 people, including a constabulary constable, progressive successful the ATM van robbery case, the Bengaluru metropolis constabulary person made a full 98.6% betterment of ₹7.1 crore retired of ₹7.11 crore that was robbed connected November 19, 2025.
City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh appreciated the team’s enactment for cracking the lawsuit and awarded certificate of appreciation to each the 200 constabulary unit progressive successful the operation.
The accused person been taken into custody and further investigations are connected to retrieve the remainder of the wealth from them, helium said.
It was a meticulously-planned robbery executed badly, an serviceman portion of the cognition said.
A pursuit done Hyderabad
While the constabulary faced galore challenges successful the case, the toughest portion was the apprehension of the trio who had hired a cab to Hyderabad and utilized the mobile fig of the cab operator to misguide the police, the authoritative said.
The accused, identified arsenic Rakesh, member of 1 of the masterminds, Ravi, and his 2 associates Naveen and Nelson utilized mobile phones borrowed from the cab operator and shopkeepers to interaction their household members successful the city. Though the constabulary identified the accused and began tracking them down done telephone grounds details, they intercepted the cab operator connected the outskirts of Hyderabad based connected the CDR verification.
It was a contention against clip for the constabulary who drove backstage vehicles to Hyderabad successful blistery pursuit of the accused. Based connected the accusation fixed by the cab driver, the police, wrong an hour, reached the lodge wherever the accused had stayed, but by past they had already checked out.
Meanwhile, the accused went to a roadside foodstuff centre for a refreshment and borrowed the telephone of the store proprietor to marque a telephone to their parents. The constabulary got a tip-off from the method squad successful the city, who were tracking the movements of the accused and rushed to the foodstuff centre with the assistance of section police. By then, however, the accused had near and the foodstuff centre proprietor confirmed the beingness of trio and told the constabulary that they had borrowed his telephone to marque a call.
The police, based connected his information, dispersed successful antithetic directions to proceed tracking the accused earlier nabbing them astatine the Nampally Metro Station successful Hyderabad.
The accused confessed to the constabulary that they came to cognize astir the apprehension of their associates and decided to instrumentality to the metropolis and had adjacent purchased autobus tickets to Bengaluru.
However, earlier boarding the bus, the constabulary squad tracked them down and recovered a full of ₹54.7 lakh which they had carried successful their backpacks.
Older execution case
One of the premier accused, Ravi — lad of a erstwhile service antheral and proprietor of a question bureau — arrested by the constabulary revealed during the questioning that helium was progressive successful the execution lawsuit of a rowdy-sheeter reported successful Varthur constabulary presumption limits successful May 2018. He was absconding since past and the constabulary had failed to way him down until helium was arrested by the Siddapura constabulary for the ATM van robbery case.
Ravi, according to the police, was portion of the rival pack which hacked 33-year-old Challa Kumar connected the nighttime of May 17, 2018, astatine Kodathi Gate.
The premier accused, Nagaraj, had nonrecreational rivalry with Challa Kumar who was a rowdy-sheeter successful Banasawadi having implicit fractional a twelve transgression cases. While the constabulary had arrested each the six accused, Ravi who was portion of the execution plan, execution and besides providing logistics to the accused, was not arrested.
