6th and 7th March - Bank Robbery

Four people, including two students, who carried out a sophisticated robbery - inspired by Hollywood film Ocean's 11 - at a bank here last month, have been arrested and most of the stolen Rs.23 lakh recovered, police said. Announcing the solving of the case, Kanpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Yashaswi Yadav said that out of the Rs.23 lakh looted from the Bank of Baroda branch in Nirala Nagar here, Rs.19 lakh had been recovered from the three persons - Anshul, Shailendra and Jitendra, who were arrested earlier in the day. Their accomplice Atif was picked up by a team of Kanpur police from New Delhi. Yadav said that what had even stunned the cops was the robbers' modus operandi - use of technology and social networking sites in the crime. "The robbers had put tape on their fingers so as not to leave any finger prints, they were wearing helmets and goggles to prevent identification and talked to each other on ear phones," he said, and said that soon after the bank robbery, they broke and threw away their SIM cards and separated. During interrogation, the trio told cops that they had taken inspiration from Hollywood flick "Ocean's 11", a film on robberies in Las Vegas casinos. One of the bank robbers is a computer science engineer and other an information technology (IT) engineering student. One of them had also used some of the looted money to pay his college fees.

I still don't understand how this was inspired from Ocean's 11 flick.

Thanks for sharing Nikki.
I have to catch the part2 yet but reading the post, I think the looters were very sharp and intelligent.
But, there is NEVER a perfect crime...!!

The case was really interesting

They did try to carry out a "almost" perfect robbery but like they say No Crime is Perfect. I really liked the way the case was solved especially the way social networking site was used.. 👏