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Rs.2 mn stolen from police complex in Maharashtra town
Monday November 08, 2010 05:28:03 PM,
IANS
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Raigad
(Maharashtra): In a shock to Officials Monday, nearly
Rs.20 lakh (Rs.2 million) in cash were discovered to have been
stolen from a government treasury, located inside a police
complex, in Pen, a town some 100 km south of Mumbai.
The theft came to light Monday morning when the Regional Transport
Office (RTO) in the town opened after a three-day Diwali weekend.
“According to our preliminary investigations, at least two persons
came down a hill behind the treasury complex, and climbed onto the
roof of the single-storey structure,” said I.S. Patil, the police
station chief.
The thieves removed the detachable tiles from the roof to gain
entry to the building, he added.
The investigators were confounded by the fact that only the cash
kept in the RTO box was stolen, even though the office had many
sealed boxes full of cash from other departments.
The money, collected by various departments, is kept in the
treasury under armed security.
Patil admitted that only the main entrance had round-the-clock
security, and the rear side of the building remained unmanned.
Security for the entire complex will now be reviewed, he added. No
arrests have been made yet.
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