Overview

• Two men posing as policemen confronted a couple and a driver during a planned cash exchange in Akshayanagar, filmed them, and assaulted them before the group was overpowered and abducted.
• Mota Ram and his wife Lakshmi Devi, meeting driver Hemant to transfer ₹1.01 crore, were held in a shed for about two hours as the gang demanded ₹10 lakh in additional ransom.
• Hemant was made to call his employer Mohan, who instead alerted senior officers, enabling Hulimavu police already patrolling nearby to locate the site swiftly and free the hostages.
• Police recovered the entire ₹1.01 crore and seized a car and a two-wheeler used in the crime, then detained eight suspects identified as Narasimha, Jeevan, Kishore M., Venkataraju, Chandiran, Kumar N., Ravi Kiran, and Naman.
• Authorities registered a case at Hulimavu Police Station, noted two accused have prior murder or robbery cases, and are probing how the gang learned of the high-value cash movement.