Bengaluru: Three arrested in ₹7.11 crore cash van heist
Bengaluru police have quickly arrested three men after a bold daylight robbery of a cash van on November 19 near Ashoka Pillar.
The suspects include Annappa Naik, a police constable; Xavier, a former CMS Info Systems employee; and Gopi Prasad, who worked for the same company and allegedly helped plan the route.
All three were caught within just three days of the crime.
How the heist went down—and what's next
The gang, pretending to be RBI officials, stopped the van around lunchtime and forced staff to hand over cash boxes near Dairy Circle flyover before ditching the vehicle.
They avoided detection by skipping mobile phones and using different languages while moving through CCTV blind spots.
Police have already recovered most of the stolen money—₹5.76 crore in Karnataka and ₹53 lakh in Hyderabad—and seized one of the getaway vehicles.
The investigation is still active as officers track down more suspects and look into how CMS's broken GPS rules made things easier for the robbers.