Chennai: A week after the Rs 5.75 crore heist from RBI cash wagon came attached to Salem–Chennai Express, sleuths started questioning 32 railway employees deployed at Chetpet yard on Tuesday hoping to get some clues that could lead them to the gang which executed the crime after making a hole in the roof of the coach.
CB-CID sleuths had already questioned the nine policemen who had escorted the cash wagon on that day besides making enquiries in colonies along the railway tracks in and around Chetpet yard. Meanwhile, two superintendents of police from CB-CID are camping in Salem and conducting enquiries to know if there was any kind of information leak in Salem from where Rs 342 crore worth soiled notes loaded in the cash coach. CB-CID teams are also grilling railway staff and employees of the parcel agency hired to load the cash boxes into the wagon in Salem.
“The night duty shift at the yard is up to 6 am. But most of them leave the place from 4.30 am onwards. Personnel on the next shift would arrive at the yard by 10 am. So there were no employees at the yard between 6 am and 10 am,” noted a police officer, who is part of the investigation team.
“Right now we can’t confirm that the heist happened in Chetpet yard. But there is a very high probability that it could have happened there when the wagon was parked between 5 am to 10 am on last Tuesday morning. We are not ruling out the chances of the heist either at Salem or between Salem and Virudhachalam. After Virudhachalam, the train was running on an electric line. It is considered impossible to make a hole and get inside a wagon when the train is running with the overhead high-tension cable. At Chetpet, the train was parked with no electric cable overhead,” police noted.
