Mylapore Police has so far arrested nine suspects in connection with a robbery of Rs.1.5 crore from the staff of a private engineering college.
Police sources said the engineering college has been functioning in Thalambur. Vinodh Kumar of Mylapore who is manager of the college was carrying Rs. 1.5 crore in a bag in a bike to the chairman’s house in Kotturpuram on April 2nd night. A gang who came on bikes waylaid him and robbed the cash bag from him. Based on his complaint, Mylapore Police registered a case and arrested Dileep and Dinesh Kumar of Vyasarpadi and seven others.
They had stashed the cash at a woman’s house in Red Hills and police recovered Rs. 39 lakh. Further investigation is on to recover the remaining amount.
