A part of cash being sent to RBI here from Salem in Tamil Nadu in a train is suspected to have been stolen on the way after some of the currency boxes were found tampered with, police said on Tuesday.
The incident came to light after the express train from Salem arrived in Chennai on Tuesday morning with around 200 boxes of cash and some of the boxes transported through three cargo coaches of the train were found tampered with.
Police officials were tightlipped on the quantum of money that was transported from Salem but IG Ramasubramanyam said that Rs 5 crores in cash was stolen in the heist.
A police official said that an air-vent in one of the coaches was found broken, prompting doubts that someone could have entered from its roof.
Police said they were probing many angles including how the theft could have happened despite having policemen guard the cash.
(With inputs from PTI)
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