Rail passenger loses Rs 10.75L in train, gets back Rs 5L in a few hrs

CHENNAI: Barely a few hours after a passenger lodged a complaint with the Government Railway Police at Egmore here that he had lost Rs 10.75 lakh on a train, Rs 5 lakh was recovered at the Tambaram station.
M Ravikumar (46), a native of Salem and a businessman, on Wednesday evening boarded the Salem-Chennai Egmore Express train at Salem. While travelling in a sleeper coach, he allegedly carried Rs 10.75 lakh in cash in two bags.

On reaching Egmore on Thursday morning, his found his cash bags missing. Immediately, he lodged a complaint with the GRP at Egmore. He told the police that for business purposes he carried the cash in two bags, each containing Rs 5.75 lakh and Rs 5 lakh. By the time police completed the inquiry, the train coaches were taken to the Tambaram terminal for stabling the rakes.

The police immediately alerted the Tambaram GRP to inspect the coach where Ravikumar travelled. Within a few minutes a railway maintenance worker brought a plastic bag to the Tambaram railway police station, saying that the bag was found abandoned on the platform. It contained Rs 5 lakh in cash.
Police confirmed that the bag belonged to Ravikumar and said it would be handed over to him after completing the due process.

The Egmore GRP police said they had registered a case of theft of Rs 5.75 lakh. “We have begun to retrieve the CCTV footage of the train from the Tambaram and Egmore stations. The probe is on,” said an officer.