![]() ![]() Each team was given individual tasks and individual profiles. The CCTV follow-up gave us an idea of the physical features of the three burglars. Immediately, we have an anchoring point to launch into our investigation. His Instagram profile is full of pictures shot in a gym. We immediately profiled him and checked his social media accounts. In this case, it was a bit easy for us, given that one of them was an employee. Greater Chennai Police Commissioner Shankar Jiwal said, “The general challenge we face in any crime of this scale is to first locate the accused. He was one of the four who had planned the crime three years ago at the tea shop. The police said 31.700 kg of gold jewellery, worth over ₹15 crore, was looted by the trio who fled on two bikes.Īs special police teams questioned the bank staff and gathered information, they concluded that Murugan was the main perpetrator. A case was registered under Sections 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement) and 397 (robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt), read with 120 B (criminal conspiracy), of the Indian Penal Code. Suresh lodged a complaint with the Arumbakkam police. The burglars tied him up before committing the crime. The guard Saravanan was found lying on the terrace, gagged and his hands and legs tied. The strong room was opened with another key from the Anna Nagar branch. A few minutes later, a customer, named Davidson, walked in and heard the staff screaming from behind the grill in the strong room. They took the keys along while leaving the place with the booty. They brandished weapons at the staff and pushed Suresh and Vijayalakshmi behind the grill of the strong room and locked the main door. The trio took the jewellery stored in 481 covers from the locker and stuffed them in four shoulder bags. Then, Murugan and his associate opened the main grill of the strong room, and the vault. One of his accomplices snatched a bunch of keys for the strong room and a mobile phone from Suresh’s pocket. Murugan went on to sever the cables of the CCTV recorder and the security alarm system with a small knife. ![]() Then Suresh warned Murugan not to betray the organisation he was working for. One of them brandished a foot-long knife at Vijayalakshmi, who was standing near the strong room, and threatened to slash her neck if she shouted. While Vijayalakshmi turned him down, Suresh sipped it and felt mildly giddy soon after.Īt 2.10 p.m., Murugan brought in two unidentified persons. Half-an-hour later, he returned with a bottle of a ready-to-drink beverage and poured it into two cups for his colleagues. At 1.30 p.m., he went out again under the pretext of collecting the mobile phone from a service centre. That day, as it emerged from the police investigation, Murugan was frequently stepping out of the office. Suresh and Vijayalakshmi were already present. Murugan had worked at the Padi branch for a week and reported for duty at the Arumbakkam branch at 9.40 a.m. Suresh, 30, a branch manager Vijayalakshmi, 30, a customer service executive and Murugan, 30, a relationship executive, along with Saravanan, a security guard at the gate - were on duty that day. It has a strong room with lockers for the custody of the pledged jewellery. The branch offers loans against gold jewellery. On August 13, a Saturday afternoon, the friends struck at a two-storey building housing a branch of Fed Bank Financial Services, a subsidiary of Federal Bank, on Razak Garden Road at Arumbakkam. They stuff the jewels in bags, lock up Suresh and Vijayalakshmi in strong room and flee. The CCTV cameras were added recently to try to deter further break-ins.2.20 p.m.: One thief opens grill gate of the strong room another opens the vault. Mr Isaac said nothing was taken but believed that the would-be-thieves were looking for copper from an old boiler that had been replaced just before the incident in March. The club's changing rooms were broken into in March, when someone is believed to have used an angle grinder to gain access through a metal security door. ![]()
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