Bengaluru, Nov. 23 -- Police have recovered Rs.5.76 crore in cash and arrested three people, including a police constable, in connection with one of the most sensational daylight heists where Rs.7.11 crore was robbed from an ATM cash-carrying vehicle in Bengaluru, officials aware of the matter said on Saturday. According to police, the incident occurred on November 19 when the accused, allegedly posing as RBI officials, intercepted a CMS Info Systems cash van at Dairy Circle Flyover in Bengaluru, and fled with Rs.7.11 crore. The core conspirators -- identified as Ravi, a supervisory staffer of CMS Securities custodial vehicle; former employee Xavier; and Govindapura police station constable Annappa Naik -- have been arrested; and a substantial portion of the stolen cash, amounting to Rs.5.76 crore, has been recovered from them, said an official. Bengaluru city police commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh the accused had been plotting the heist for nearly three months. "They had fixed the location almost 15 days in advance. The criminals arrived in a car with a Government of India sticker, intercepted the van claiming they needed to verify documents, and forced the staff into their vehicle along with the cash. They later dropped the staff near Dairy Circle and fled with the money," he said at a press conference. Describing the case as "highly challenging" because the accused had erased all digital footprints, Singh noted that it took a team of 200 police personnel 54 hours to crack it. "They seized the staff members' mobile phones, dropped them near NIMHANS, and fled. By the time we got confirmed inputs, almost one and a half hours had passed. They used routes with no CCTV coverage and avoided mobile usage. The cash bundles had no serial pattern, which further complicated tracking efforts," he said. P4...