MP gang behind ₹5.75 crore loot
In a major breakthrough, the Crime Branch CID of the Tamil Nadu police has cracked the sensational train heist case in which ₹5.75 crore cash assigned to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was looted from a moving train a couple of years ago.
The unprecedented train robbery occurred on the Salem-Chennai Express on the night of August 8, 2016, after a gang broke into the parcel van containing ₹342 crore of soiled but usable currency, and took away ₹5.75 crore.
The stolen money was in ₹500 and ₹1,000 denomination notes that were later demonetised. The gang cut through the roof of the train making an opening measuring 2 ft by 1.5 ft.
Technical evidence
After months of strenuous investigation hit a dead end, a special team of the CBCID that was consistently tracking different leads finally hit upon technical evidence that led to the breakthrough. Sources in the agency told The Hindu on Sunday that a gang of criminals from Madhya Pradesh was involved in the heist.
It was technical evidence coupled with months of meticulous investigation that led the police to crack the train robbery and nail the gang in the case.
This story is from the August 27, 2018 edition of The Hindu.
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