When a police officer knocked on 78-year-old Bengaluru resident Gangadhar’s door on Wednesday afternoon with questions about his car, the senior citizen had no idea his vehicle’s number had just been used in one of the city’s biggest daylight robberies.

Hours later, as news channels flashed the registration number, KA 03 NC 8052, linked to the Rs 7.11-crore < strong>ATM heist , he was stunned—not just by the audacity of the crime, but also by a nagging question: why did the criminals choose the number of his Swift among millions of vehicles in Bengaluru .

Rs 7.11 crore was stolen from an ATM logistics vehicle by people who came in an Innova car bearing the registration number KA 03 NC 8052. They posed as income tax and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) officials. Later the police found o

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