The team consisted of Circle Inspectors of Police Vikraman and M.P Mohanachandran, SI Anvar Hussain and other officers from the subordinate ranks .
The criminals tried to create an impression of Naxalite involvement in the robbery by quoting a sentence Jai Mao (praising naxalism) at the scene of the crime to deviate enquiry.
According to police officials, the criminals had purposely left one kilogram of looted gold in a hotel room in Hyderabad and made telephone calls from many different cities of India to mislead the investigation.
The police team also monitored all telephone calls in the closest mobile signal towers at the location of the crime during the midnight hours of the incident.
[5] The official arrest was formally announced on 28 February 2008 by K S Jangpangi, the additional director general of Kerala police.
It is widely considered to be a credit to Kerala police that they solved the biggest robbery in the state within a short period and with the first recovery of so much stolen property.
[8] In August 2022, it was reported that the book's film adaptation right have been sold, with Mohanlal essaying the role of the officer P. Vijayan, while Fahadh Faasil would play criminal Babu.