New Year’s Eve, 2007. Families across Kerala were preparing for celebrations, but in Malappuram a daring gang was drilling through eight inches of reinforced concrete into the South Malabar Gramin Bank.

By morning, 80 kilos of gold and lakhs in cash had vanished. No fingerprints, no footprints—just a note saying, “Jai Maoist.” What followed was an investigation into one of Kerala’s boldest heists, which gripped the state.

This episode of Kerala Crime Files revisits the Chelembra bank robbery that stunned Kerala and rewrote the history of crime in the state.