Overview
- Police named the arrested as constable Annappa Naik, former CMS employee Xavier, and cash-van vehicle in-charge Gopi.
- About ₹5.76 crore was recovered and a getaway Innova was traced near Tirupati in Chittoor district.
- Eleven teams with roughly 200 personnel identified suspects within 24 hours, detained three in 54 hours, and seized cash within 60 hours.
- The gang posed as RBI or Income Tax officials, used a car with a Government of India sticker, forced staff into their vehicle, and exploited CCTV blind spots with swapped number plates.
- A hunt continues across southern states for additional members of the six-to-eight person gang as police probe CMS lapses such as a nonfunctioning GPS and fixed routes; investigators also reported call-record links between two accused even as officials said phones were not used during the heist.