Overview
- Police in Sri Sathya Sai district said they cracked two NH-44 robberies that involved kidnappings and the theft of ₹5.8 crore, taking 10 suspects into custody from an alleged interstate gang.
- Investigators reported seizing ₹1.26 crore in cash, a Toyota Innova, a Mahindra XUV500, a BMW, 13 mobile phones, counterfeit number plates, knives, pepper spray and masks.
- Officers said the network has 21 members operating across Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, with 11 suspects still at large and multiple special teams pursuing them.
- According to police, the gang stopped moving cars, smashed windows, seized phones, abducted occupants and later left them in isolated spots, while using fake plates and cash toll payments to avoid FASTag records at plazas.
- The probe drew on CCTV across more than 200 km from Kurnool to Bengaluru and Salem plus analysis of call records, IPDR and IMEI data, and it found the use of fake SIMs from Kerala, Dharmapuri lodges for planning and VoIP calls that officials say were coordinated from Nepal.