When Ramalingam, who was on a two-wheeler, stopped the vehicle to open the main gate of his house, two men on a bike said that some of the cash fell from his bag.

 Believing them, he went to take the cash from the road but he found only Rs 230 there. When he returned to his two-wheeler, the cash bag was missing.

 Ramalingam, who realised he has been conned, filed a complaint with the Pallikaranai police and they have registered a case. The police trying to trace the accused with the help of CCTV footage from the area.

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