<p>Bengaluru: Two employees of a finance bank colluded to steal gold worth Rs 16 lakh from a safety deposit locker in their bank and eventually fell into the police net following a purely technical investigation.</p>.<p>The suspects have been identified as Aishwarya, 26, and Harshith, 27, colleagues at a finance bank in Basaveshwar Nagar. Interestingly, they stole the valuables from the deposit locker of their own bank manager. They had also relied on a Bescom notification about power cuts to carry out the theft without raising suspicions.</p>.<p>The bank manager filed a police complaint in December 2024, claiming that his own safety locker had been accessed by someone within the bank and gold jewellery was stolen. The police launched an investigation and focused solely on the bank’s employees as the locker had not been broken open, but accessed using a genuine key.</p>.Man drills hole into shop, strips naked & steals phones in Bengaluru.<p>Investigations revealed that the bank manager usually kept the safety locker key in his wallet, and it had gone missing, while the second key — typically held by the bank for security reasons — remained intact in its designated place.</p>.<p>The bank had five employees, and the police interrogated all of them, but initially found no leads. They then obtained their phone numbers and conducted technical analyses, including call detail and message pattern checks.</p>.<p>"During the technical analysis, we found some suspicious messaging patterns between the suspects, and on the same day, a series of calls were exchanged between them. When we questioned them about certain leads we had gathered, they couldn’t provide convincing answers and eventually confessed,” an investigator told DH.</p>.<p>The suspects revealed that they were facing financial problems at home and needed a substantial sum of money to resolve them. This drove them to plan the theft by accessing the bank locker and stealing valuables.</p>.<p>The police said the investigation took four months due to the intricacies involved and the painstaking technical processes. However, they successfully recovered 170 grams of gold worth Rs 16 lakh.</p>.<p>Further investigations revealed that the suspects were aware that their manager kept a safety locker at the bank and usually carried the key in his wallet. Last year, when the manager stepped out for lunch, leaving his wallet behind, the duo discreetly took the key and replaced the wallet without arousing suspicion.</p>.<p>They waited a few more days, and when they came across a Bescom notification about a scheduled power outage for maintenance, they planned to access the safety locker, knowing the CCTV cameras would be disabled.</p>.<p>On the same day, when the power went off and even the UPS was drained, the suspects tactically opened the safety locker and made away with the valuables, police said.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: Two employees of a finance bank colluded to steal gold worth Rs 16 lakh from a safety deposit locker in their bank and eventually fell into the police net following a purely technical investigation.</p>.<p>The suspects have been identified as Aishwarya, 26, and Harshith, 27, colleagues at a finance bank in Basaveshwar Nagar. Interestingly, they stole the valuables from the deposit locker of their own bank manager. They had also relied on a Bescom notification about power cuts to carry out the theft without raising suspicions.</p>.<p>The bank manager filed a police complaint in December 2024, claiming that his own safety locker had been accessed by someone within the bank and gold jewellery was stolen. The police launched an investigation and focused solely on the bank’s employees as the locker had not been broken open, but accessed using a genuine key.</p>.Man drills hole into shop, strips naked & steals phones in Bengaluru.<p>Investigations revealed that the bank manager usually kept the safety locker key in his wallet, and it had gone missing, while the second key — typically held by the bank for security reasons — remained intact in its designated place.</p>.<p>The bank had five employees, and the police interrogated all of them, but initially found no leads. They then obtained their phone numbers and conducted technical analyses, including call detail and message pattern checks.</p>.<p>"During the technical analysis, we found some suspicious messaging patterns between the suspects, and on the same day, a series of calls were exchanged between them. When we questioned them about certain leads we had gathered, they couldn’t provide convincing answers and eventually confessed,” an investigator told DH.</p>.<p>The suspects revealed that they were facing financial problems at home and needed a substantial sum of money to resolve them. This drove them to plan the theft by accessing the bank locker and stealing valuables.</p>.<p>The police said the investigation took four months due to the intricacies involved and the painstaking technical processes. However, they successfully recovered 170 grams of gold worth Rs 16 lakh.</p>.<p>Further investigations revealed that the suspects were aware that their manager kept a safety locker at the bank and usually carried the key in his wallet. Last year, when the manager stepped out for lunch, leaving his wallet behind, the duo discreetly took the key and replaced the wallet without arousing suspicion.</p>.<p>They waited a few more days, and when they came across a Bescom notification about a scheduled power outage for maintenance, they planned to access the safety locker, knowing the CCTV cameras would be disabled.</p>.<p>On the same day, when the power went off and even the UPS was drained, the suspects tactically opened the safety locker and made away with the valuables, police said.</p>
