Mysuru: The Second Additional District and Sessions Court yesterday convicted seven persons accused of looting Rs. 70 lakh from the office of an agency that supplied cash from banks to ATMs. The quantum of punishment will be announced on Dec. 2. One among the accused is already dead. The accused looted the office of G4S Security Services located right behind Metagalli Police Station and a complaint was registered there later. Suresh, Gopal, Praveen, Jagdish, Manukumar, Prabhakar and Srinivas, were involved in the robbery committed on Aug. 2, 2008. A seven-member gang had attacked the office, tied gunman Suresh and assaulted another personnel Vinod. Both Suresh and Vinod were suspected and Suresh was not injured much. He had not even used the loaded gun to resist robbery. The cash chest had been opened with duplicate keys and hence the Police strongly doubted Suresh. During interrogation, he spilled the beans. The cash was found in Gopal’s house. However, Gopal died of heart attack as soon as the Police found the cash. H.D. Anand Kumar was the Public Prosecutor in the case.
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