Kanpur Money Heist! Thieves dig 10-feet-long tunnel to SBI branch, loot nearly ₹1 crore of gold

A stunning incident of financial institution theft happened in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur on Friday. The burglars broke into the strongroom of the State Bank of India (SBI) in Kanpur via a 10-foot-lengthy tunnel at the intervening night time of Thursday and Friday and stole gold really well worth ₹1 crore.

The robbers had dug the tunnel, which become approximately 4 toes wide, from an empty plot adjoining to the SBI’s Bhanuti department, the police said.

The unidentified burglars used a fueloline cutter to open the locker. They disabled the alarm gadget and grew to become the only CCTV digital digicam withinside the strongroom the alternative way.

According to the financial institution officers, the thieves stole over 1.eight kg of gold which become really well worth approximately ₹1 crore.

Police and forensic officers who investigated the ‘theft’ located the tunnel dug from a vacant plot adjoining to the financial institution’s strongroom and blanketed through shrubbery.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Vijay Dhull suspected that a few financial institution insider become additionally concerned in committing this crime.

“It will be an insider’s task who performed the crime with the assist of professional criminals. We have located a few leads, inclusive of fingerprints from the strongroom, that could assist crack the heist,” Dhull said.

Preliminary investigations advise that the thieves have to have completed a recce of the location and have been acquainted with the development and structure of the financial institution in addition to the strongroom and the gold chest.

The theft got here to mild on Friday morning whilst financial institution officers located the gold chest and the strongroom door opened, Commissioner of Police BP Jogdand said.

The financial institution officers additionally located the tunnel via which the thieves had entered the strongroom, he added.

Senior police officers, forensic experts, and a canine squad reached the financial institution and released a probe.

Bank supervisor Neeraj Rai advised the police that the gold belonged to 29 folks who had taken loans towards it.

A case has been registered below Section 379 (theft) of the Indian Penal Code withinside the matter. A comparable case passed off in Kanpur in 1997, in which burglars had entered SBI’s Govind Nagar department after digging a 60-metre-lengthy tunnel.