The Telangana police have maintained that no link has so far been established between the Bengaluru blast and the bank heist in Choppadandi town of Karimnagar district.
District SP V. Shiva Kumar told The Hindu that the police were pursuing all angles in the >bank heist case. He also said that some SIMI activists who fled from Khandwa jail in Madhya Pradesh were >suspected to be behind the bank theft in Karimnagar.
Four pistol-wielding men broke into the State Bank of India branch at Choppadandi on February 1, 2014 and decamped with Rs. 46 lakh.
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Sources said the police had recovered two motorcycles parked at the Peddapalli railway station from where the culprits are believed to have taken a train. The motorcycles were found to be stolen from Nalgonda district.
Police later recovered Rs. 7.44 lakh in cash from a hide out in Bijnor of Uttar Pradesh. Police sources also said that the NIA had recovered the cash stolen from Choppadandi bank at the Bardhaman blast site in West Bengal a few months ago.