It was the perfect plan to loot a co-operative bank on a holiday and make off with the gold and cash inside the vault. But, the thieves' grand plan failed when they came up against a second vault inside. Thinking they couldn't cut open this vault, the thieves ran away but not before taking the DVR of the CCTV cameras and the monitor. The Mankhurd cops have registered an offence against unknown people.

On Monday morning, when a peon, Vinayak Jadhav, who works in The Hindustan Co-operative Bank Limited, Mohite Patil Nagar branch, Mankhurd, opened the gates of the premises on June 29 morning around 9.30am, he found something amiss. The electricity had gone and the locker room of the bank was open. He immediately contacted the branch manager Shrirang Metkari.