CBI Cracks Mysore Press Case

Hi Friends,

The HOT news on Sunday was the breakthrough achieved by CBI in cracking the one year old BRBNMPL theft case. Fifty lakh bucks were spirited away (10,000 pieces of freshly printed notes of Rs 500 denomination) and apparently there were no clues when the crime was committed. As many as eight CISF men connived with some employees of BRBNMPL working in the packing, strapping and the main vault and managed the grand theft. The main culprit, constable Sabulal thus had the help of around a dozen people. As per press reports fourteen employees of BRBNMPL were subjected to polygraph and brain mapping tests at the Forensic Science Laboratory, Bangalore. The tests revealed that three employees had information about the theft. It took the CBI four months to take permission from the court to subject the trio to narco-analysis (truth serum) tests. With the help of forensic psychlogists from FSL the three culprits ultimately spilled the beans which led to the arrests of the CISF personnel and solving of the case. As reported in one particular daily CBI sleuths disguised themselves as preachers and went to Sabulal's house to gather evidence and found some notes of the missing series from the house. They could recover around 30 lakhs and a minibus from Sabulal. Some interesting revelations from this case are as follows :

1. The use of old world methods such as disguising oneself are still useful in investigations.

2. High tech methods used to learn the truth from suspects ( a la Robert Ludlum and John Le Carre and not to forget James Bond movies)

3. Protectors turned marauders ( the lesser said about CISF the better)

4. When the crime took place CCTV reportedly was only being used for surveillance and no recordings were done. ( Dead zones still persist)

5. The alarm system was jammed by the culprit who then entered the vault through an opening meant for Security Checks.

6. The CBI is capable of doing a damn good job in any case entrusted to it provided there is no interference from other quarters.

I think that is enough for now. This is one case which can be discussed for hours on end and valuable lessons pertaining to physical security learnt from it.