Cops had to turn to the stolen car's FASTag records, where they discovered that the automobile was driving in the FASTag lane of every toll plaza it passed through. That is how Bengaluru rural cops nabbed highway robbers who stole Rs 1 Cr using FASTag.
Kodali Sreedharan, a notorious dacoit in Kerala, was on the verge of committing a high-stakes theft on the outskirts of Bengaluru for around Rs 1 crore. A team of five employees from a private financial firm were traveling near Madanayakanahlli, just outside Bengaluru, in March, hauling Rs 1 crore in cash.
Their vehicle was abruptly stopped by seven armed robbers commanded by Sreedharan, whose modus operandi is highway robberies, as they were driving. The Bengaluru police had been looking for the criminals for more than a month when they discovered a critical hint in the car's FASTag data.
According to a story in the Times Of India, on March 11, the firm's senior accountant — who had been amongst those in the car at the ti...