Chennai: Nearly Rs 5 crore cash was stolen from a moving train. According to police, they found a person-sized hole in the roof of one of the coaches of Salem-Chennai Express on Tuesday morning. Reports added that the coach had nearly 200 boxes of currency notes, with a total value of Rs 340 crore, in disrepair to be deposited with the Reserve Bank of India.
An official of Railway Police, M Ramasubramani said, “We have leads which we can’t divulge now. The money is being counted after which only we can give the exact amount missing. Approximately around five crore could have been stolen.”
“The consignment was being transported with heavy security, including by a team headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police,” reports the New Indian Express.
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