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Bengaluru:(Asianet Newsable)The police are now interrogating the couple to get the details on how the money was spent. 
Dominic Roy, cash van driver, who had fled with ₹1.37 crore was arrested by the Bengaluru police on Monday night.

He was arrested near Tin Factory.  Earlier on Monday, his  wife Elvina had surrendered to the police. Elvina told the police that she has asked her husband Dominic to return back to Bengaluru from Kerala.

The police have confiscated the looted money. Out of ₹1.37 crores, Dominic told the police he has spent ₹12.93 lakh to clear his debts.

 From his wife, the police confiscated ₹ 79.8. During the interrogation Elvina had told the police after the robbery Dominic came home and took her along with the money to Kerala via Chittur, Veluru, and Chennai. Later he left her in Kerala and escaped.

She then returned back to Bengaluru on November 27 and was staying in  Lingarajapuram.

1.37 ಕೋಟಿ ಹಣವಿದ್ದ ವಾಹನದೊಂದಿಗೆ ನಾಪತ್ತೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದ ಚಾಲಾಕಿ ಚಾಲಕನ ಪತ್ತೆಯಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಆರೋಪಿ ಡೊಮಿನಿಕ್’ನನ್ನು ಬಂಧಿಸುವಲ್ಲಿ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಕೆ.ಆರ್​​.ಪುರಂನ ಟಿನ್​ ಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಟರಿ ಬಳಿ ಈ ಪ್ರಕರಣದ ಆರೋಪಿ ಚಾಲಾಕಿ ಚಾಲಕ ಡೊಮಿನಿಕ್’ನನ್ನು ಉಪ್ಪಾರಪೇಟೆ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಬಂಧಿಸಿದ್ದು, ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಆಯುಕ್ತ ಚರಣ್ ರೆಡ್ಡಿ ಈ ಕುರಿತಾಗಿ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟನೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಡೊಮಿನಿಕ್’ನನ್ನು ಪತ್ತೆ ಹಚ್ಚಲು ಪೊಲೀಸರ ನಾಲ್ಕು ತಂಡಗಳು ಕಾರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆಗಿಳಿದಿದ್ದರು. ಈ ಸಂಬಂಧ ಆರೋಪಿಯ ಪತ್ನಿ ಎಲ್ವಿನ್’​ಳನ್ನೂ​ ನಿನ್ನೆ ಬಂಧಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು. ನವೆಂಬರ್​ 23ರಂದು ATM ಹಣ ಸಾಗಿಸುವ ವಾಹನದ ಚಾಲಕ ಡೊಮಿನಿಕ್1.37 ಕೋಟಿ ಹಣದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಪರಾರಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದ.

ಮರುದಿನ ಗಾಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕೇವಲ 40 ಲಕ್ಷ ಉಳಿಸಿ ಇದನ್ನು ವಸಂತನಗರದ ಮೌಂಟ್​ ಕಾರ್ಮೆಲ್​ ಕಾಲೇಜು ಬಳಿ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಉಳಿದ 92 ಲಕ್ಷದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಪರಾರಿಯಾಗಿದ್ದ. ಪತ್ನಿ ಎಲ್ವಿನ್’ಳಿಂದ ಈಗಾಗಲೇ 79.8 ಲಕ್ಷ ಹಣವನ್ನು ವಶಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಂಡಿದ್ದು, 8 ಲಕ್ಷವನ್ನು ತಾವು ಪಡೆದಿದ್ದ ಸಾಲ ತೀರಿಸಲು ಉಪಯೋಗಿಸಿದ್ದೇವೆ ಎಂದಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

ಸದ್ಯ ಈ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಆರೋಪಿಯನ್ನು ಬಂಧಿಸುವಲ್ಲಿ ಯಶಸ್ವಿಯಾಗಿರುವ ಪೊಲೀಸರು ಉಳಿದ 14 ಲಕ್ಷ ಹಣ ಪತ್ತೆಗಾಗಿ ತನಿಖೆ ಮುಂದುವರೆಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

Bengaluru:(Bangalore Mirror) ATM van driver who fled with Rs 1.37 crore in cash arrested; his wife, a partner in the crime, surrendered before Bengaluru police on Sunday after her lawyer said that they had run out of options. But the couple’s story is nothing short of a Bollywood blockbuster.

Bengaluru’s Bunty aur Babli.

Bengaluru: ATM cash van driver’s wife arrested, money recovered

 He’s not your typical criminal; and she, an unlikely accomplice. Yet, between the two of them, they executed one of the most sensational heists in Bengaluru – and managed to stay two steps ahead of the police. That was until Sunday night when Dominique’s wife Evelyn Mary (39) decided to give herself up.

Dominique Roy, 43, the driver who fled with the cash van from KG Road with Rs 1.37 crore in it, has become an enigma of sorts — in part because Bengalureans are still queuing up outside banks post-8/11; and also because five days have passed and the Bengaluru police have been unable to nab him.

And the crime doesn’t appear to have been carried out in the heat of the moment; Dominique seems to have planned the entire thing, including the escape plan.

Minutes after the robbery.

On November 23, Dominique sped away with the cash van around 1.30 pm even as two of his associates were loading cash at an ATM in KG Road. Minutes later, he abandoned the cash van near Mount Carmel College in Vasanthnagar after extracting a few cash boxes and hailed an auto-rickshaw for his house in Lingarajapuram.

 Before going home, he got down near a provision store from where he borrowed a hammer and broke open the cash box in the shop. He transferred the cash into a bag and left the boxes behind in the shop. Police have questioned the shopkeeper but he said that he didn’t bother to check what Dominique was doing. The boxes have been recovered from his shop.

 When he returned home, Evelyn and her 10-year-old son (she is his second wife; more about that later) were waiting for Dominique. Evelyn was ready with the luggage; the couple had even sold some of their household articles a couple of days before executing the plan. They took an auto-rickshaw to Shivajinagar and had biryani at Imperial Hotel near the bus stand. They then broke their SIM cards and tossed them into a dustbin outside the hotel (police have recovered the broken SIM cards). From there, they took an auto to go to Shanthi Nagar bus stand; boarded a bus to Vellore and checked into a lodge.

The family then kept changing its location, careful not to spend too much time at one particular spot. They went from Vellore to Coimbatore; and then to Vijaywada (see box).

 Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) MN Anucheth said, “When they were travelling Coimbatore, Dominique took a cell phone of a co-passenger in the train and called Evelyn’s uncle in Vijayawada. He reportedly told Dominique that what he has done was wrong and he will not allow him in his house. The couple got down at Coimbatore and went to Evelyn’s sister’s house; they then took herw sister and her husband to Chalakudy in Thrissur district. All of them stayed in a lodge and on November 25 they returned to Coimbatore. The couple said that they were returning to Bengaluru and checked into a lodge.

 On November 26, they reached Vijayavada via train. The couple met Evelyn’s aunt and spent time till evening in the house and boarded a bus for Bengaluru. They reached the city on November 27 evening and headed straight for their lawyer.

Evelyn surrenders with the loot

 On the advice of their lawyer in Bengaluru, Evelyn decided to give herself up. She approached the Banaswadi police along with her son. A total of Rs 79.08 lakh was recovered from her. Around noon on Monday, she was handed over to Upparpet police station. DCP (East) N Satish Kumar said, “We questioned Evelyn and handed her over to the West division police where the case has been registered. The investigation is being carried out by them.”

But Dominique, it seems, is made of sterner stuff. He escaped along with Rs 13 lakh of the booty. He also has his passport with him but police believe he won’t be able to get very far and will be arrested – or will turn himself in – by Tuesday, tops.

The back story

 Dominique, a driver by profession, had worked as a daily wager and could not keep a job for long. He had divorced his first wife with whom he has a teenaged son.
 Evelyn, an Anglo-Indian, is a divorcee too. She has a son from her first marriage. Dominique and Evelyn started living together at her house in Lingarajapuram and eventually got married recently. After the wedding, Evelyn moved to Dubai as a housemaid but had to quickly return to India as the couple she was working for started clashing over Evelyn. She returned to the city on November 1; that same day, Dominique joined Secure Transit and was deployed as the cash van driver for Logicash Solutions. He worked till November 7 and then went on a 10-day leave. On November 18, rejoined work. On November 23, he fled with the van.

How the couple stayed two steps ahead of the police

 Soon after the incident was reported, the police collected basic details about Dominique and headed to his rented house in Lingarajapuram. They reached sometime after 3 pm and learnt that Dominique had locked his house and left along with his wife and her 10-year-old son.

 In Thrissur too, a police team deployed to nab the couple reached the lodge a good two hours after it had left.

 Soon after executing the heist, the couple broke their SIM cards and had been contacting their relatives only through coin-operated phones, thus avoiding detection.
 In fact, whatever leads the police got were through phones of Evelyn’s mother, who stays in Dubai. “Dominique was not in regular contact with his family and we were sure that the couple will call Evelyn’s relatives. But if we had questioned them, the couple would have been alerted,” said a police officer.

ON THE RUN

November 23 bus to vellore

* Cash van driver Dominique Roy flees with the vehicle -- and Rs 1.37 cr -- from KG Road around 1.30 pm.
 * Police reach his Lingarajapuram house sometime after 3 pm; by then Dominique, his wife Evelyn and her 10-year-old son are already on the run
 * After destroying their SIMs, they board a bus to Vellore

November 24 From vellore to Thrissur

 * The family reaches Vellore, but soon decides to go to Coimbatore where Evelyn’s sister and husband stay.
 * All of them head to halakudy in Thrissur in Kerala on the pretext of meeting some relatives and return to Coimbatore the next day

November 25 thrissur to coimbatore to vijayawada

 * lBack in Coimbatore, they bid farewell to Evelyn’s sister; tell her that they are returning to Bengaluru. But they check themselves into a lodge in Coimbatore.
 * They board a night train to Vijayawada where Evelyn’s aunt stays

November 26 from vijayawada to bengaluru

 The couple reach Vijayawad and spend time till evening in Evelyn’s aunt’s house. They board a bus to Bengaluru

November 27 at bengaluru

 * They reach Bengaluru in the evening and consult an advocate, Nancy Prince, who advises them to surrender. Dominique refuses and flees with around Rs 13 lakh in cash. Late in the night, Evelyn surrenders at Banaswadi police station, near her house in Lingarajapuram

November 27 at bengaluru

* They reach Bengaluru in the evening and consult an advocate, Nancy Prince, who advises them to surrender. Dominique refuses and flees with around Rs 13 lakh in cash. Late in the night, Evelyn surrenders at Banaswadi police station, near her house in Lingarajapuram