The sensational bank heist in Sonepat, Haryana had not just evoked the interest of Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) but multiple security agencies, including the Delhi Police which has sent a team to visit the crime scene and aide in investigation.

However, the case was cracked before the Delhi Police team reached Sonepat with the arrest of two persons and recovery of jewellery weighing 10 kg from them by the local police.

“The modus operandi of this bank robbery was unique and pulled off with amazing precision. This invoked our curiosity and we had sent a team to look into the matter,” said a senior Delhi Police official.

Given the fact that the robbers had dug a 125-feet-long and 2.5 feet wide tunnel to the bank from a house, experts believed that an organised inter-State or even an international gang was behind the robbery.

“Our Rohtak counterparts told us that they were flooded with calls from the security establishments from across the country. People talked about GPS and laser-guided technology being used to dig the tunnel with such precision. But investigators there believed that it was the handiwork of local gangs and that is what it came out to be,” the police official said.

They dug the entire 125-feet long underground tunnel based on their judgment without using any modern gadgets, he added quoting senior officials in Rohtak. The robbery was carried out by four people. Two of them, identified as Surender alias Kala alias doctor, who worked as a laboratory technician, and Balraj alias Ballu Both have been arrested by the police. The duo belong to Katwal village in Sonepat district.

Cash and jewellery worth crores of rupees were stolen from the bank's Gohana branch in Sonepat.