Chennai: Believe it or not, unidentified robbers managed to sneak into a coach in a running train in Tamil Nadu carrying Rs 342 cr to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and executed one of the biggest heists of India.
The incident happened on late August 8 when the train was on its way from Salem to Chennai and as per News18 report, currencies worth Rs 5.78 crore belonging to RBI have been robbed from the train.
It is said that the robbers cut a hole in the roof of the train to steal old soiled currency notes, belonging to a few public sector banks, in 226 boxes and was being transported to hand over to RBI.
The heist came to light after the train reached Egmore station at around 4 am on Tuesday morning. Cops found that at least two boxes containing the soiled currency notes had been tempered with.
As of not, it has not been ascertained as to at which spot the thieves managed to sneak out the cash boxes in the nearly 350 km long journey.