Nizam Museum theft: Heist, a typical movie style

Hyderabad: Hyderabad City Police is using ‘reverse analysis’ to track the two men through various CC cameras installed in the vicinity. While the duo was not covered in any of the cameras inside the premises, the officials caught them on the outdoor camera which showed them leaving the area after the burglary.   The cops are following a trail from thereon, police sources said.

“We are backtracking the two men and it will lead us to their areas or hit us with some lead as there is nothing with us to move forward with,” said a source. The similar method of crime detection was used in the baby kidnap case from Secunderabad Railway station earlier last month.

The two men climbed onto the terrace and as one of them held a rope, the other one slipped in, bending the CC camera with his foot while doing so. They used an iron rod, similar to the ones found at a construction site, to break the lock of the wardrobe keeping the artefacts, said the Additional DCP of Commissioner’s Task Force, Chaitanya Kumar.

“Though the floor had several other valuables, the men just decamped with the said gifts. The evidence and clues gathered by the forensics team from the scene of offence has only the management’s fingerprints on them while the rod found at the place was a dead end as it was wiped clean” said the Additional DCP. On Tuesday, the Additional Commissioner of Police of Crimes & SIT, Shikha Goel IPS visited the museum.