This story is from August 11, 2016

Train heist: Cops suspect insider's job

A day after the daring train heist case was registered by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Egmore wing, the case was transferred to the Government Railway Police (GRP) and then it was transferred to CBCID.
Train heist: Cops suspect insider's job
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CHENNAI: A day after the daring train heist case was registered by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Egmore wing, the case was transferred to the Government Railway Police (GRP) and then it was transferred to CBCID.
The GRP wing has registered a case under the IPC Sections 379 (punishment for theft) and 461 (dishonestly breaking open receptacle containing property) and further investigations are on.
The case diary will be handed over to CBCID officers on Thursday.
The burglars drilled a hole and decamped with 5.75 crore in cash from the total of 342.70 crore soiled currency notes transported from Salem to Chennai to replace them at the RBI, Chennai.
Even before the case was transferred to GRP wing, special teams have been formed headed by Trichy railway SP Z Annie Vijaya and Chennai railway SP Dr P Vijayakumar assigning them in separate tasks to trace the culprits.
Police suspect that the burglars may have got onto the train at Salem railway station. A special team have enacted and attempted to drill a hole on the roof of a compartment at Salem railway station to check the possibility of drilling holes in a moving train.
Police suspect the insider's job in the heist, said a senior police officer. He said, "The burglars could not have done the dacoity without any insider's help, as they purportedly pulled out currency bundles from the wooden cash boxes to avoid being traced using the serial numbers."

Police said the burglars took away 80,000 currency bundles in the denomination of 500 from the wooden box number 20 and at least 35,000 currency bundles in the denomination of 500 from box number 16. The total amount was 5.75 crore. There were about 226 wooden boxes containing 342.70 crore in the compartment.
The burglars used gas cutting gadget to make drills on the roof of the compartment from outside the moving train. "The gas cutting flame can cut any metal only if the heat was concentrated on a particular place for more than at least a minute," said a police officer.
The burglar may have made a hole on the roof to divert the attention of police personnel, he added.
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