LUCKNOW, Feb. 1 -- More than a month has elapsed since the sensational robbery at a bank in the city's Chinhat area, but none of the 40 people whose lockers were targeted by six men in the early hours of December 22 have received their valuables back from the authorities.

This is despite police recovering Rs.13 lakh cash and gold and silver valuables weighing nearly 20 kilos from the accused, all of whom had either been arrested or killed in police encounters.

Against their hopes of getting their valuables back-in view of the formation of a special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team to oversee the return of the contents to their rightful owners-reports of some of the recovered jewellery going missing from police's possession has further de...