Driver’s wife surrenders, returns Rs 79 lakh to cops

Mangalore Today News Network

Bengaluru, Nov 29, 2016, DHNS: Five days after a van driver fled with Rs 1.37 crore, his wife gave herself up and returned a major part of the loot.

Evelyn Mary Roy (40), a resident of Lingarajapuram and wife of Dominic Selvaraj Roy, was accompanied to the police station by her advocate Nancy Prince.

Evelyn handed over Rs 79.08 lakh to the police and said the remaining cash was safe with her husband. Police had found Rs 45 lakh in the abandoned van. That leaves about Rs 12 lakh with the runaway driver.

Dominic was a driver for Secure Transit, a logistics company employed by banks to replenish their ATMs. “We have arrested Evelyn for plotting the robbery with her husband,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) M N Anucheth told reporters.

Dominic is in Bengaluru, she told the police, and will also turn himself in soon. The couple spent just Rs 5,000 of the stolen cash to buy clothes and shoes and pay for their stay at the lodges, Anucheth said. Police have reconstructed the crime with details obtained from Evelyn.

Evelyn joined her husband soon after the heist, when he drove the cash van away from Bank of India on K G Road.

Dominic abandoned the van near Mount Carmel College in Vasanthnagar, and they couple left for Vellore from the Shanthinagar bus terminus. They then travelled to Coimbatore, Thrissur and Vijayawada, first to a shrine and then looking for shelter, before returning to Bengaluru on Sunday.

Dominic is Evelyn’s second husband. She married him after her first husband died 14 years ago. She has a 12-year-old son from Dominic, and her son from the first husband lives separately.

Police had got in touch with the couple’s relatives and warned them not to shelter the fugitives.

Evelyn has two aunts, one in Hyderabad and the other in Vijayawada. The aunts refused the couple shelter, and advised them to surrender.

“Dominic and Evelyn were left with no option when their relatives refused to help them. They also decided to follow advocate Nancy Prince’s advice,” Anucheth said.

The police will analyse Evelyn’s fingerprints to check if she was involved in any other crimes in the past. The couple’s son will not be included in the FIR as he is a minor, he said.