TN train heist: CB-CID inspects Ernakulam station

  Kochi, Aug 16 (PTI) A team of Tamil Nadu CB-CID officialsprobing the more than Rs five crore heist on a train,inspected the Ernakulam Railway Station as one of the cargocoaches in which the soiled RBI currency totalling Rs 340crore had been transported was sent from here.   Railway sources said the officials, who visited thestation two days ago, inspected the site where the coach, fromwhich the money was stolen, was stationed and also the CCTVfootages collected from the site to ascertain whether cuttingof the roof of the coach was done in Ernakulam.    However, nothing "unusual" could be found out from theinvestigation conducted at Ernakulam station, they said.    The coach was cleared for being sent to Tamil Nadu afterconducting all required inspection, they said when contacted.    In a daring heist in a moving train, robbers had cutthrough the roof of the coach booked by the Reserve Bank ofIndia to transport money from Salem, and escaped with about Rs5.75 crore, with the heist coming to light after the trainreached its destination Chennai on August 9.     The train carrying soiled notes worth Rs 340 crore packedin 226 wooden boxes had left Salem on the previous night. Outof the 226 wooden boxes, four were found tampered with. PTITGB VSRGMVV