Miscreants smash car's windscreen,steal bag containing Rs 5 L

Some miscreants on Wednesday decamped with a bag containing Rs 5 lakh after breaking the windscreen of a car parked on the roadside at Palladam in nearby Tirupur district, police said.

Karthikeyan, a textile firm owner, had withdrawn the money from the bank and kept it in a bag in his car and left for attending to another work, police said.

On his return, he noticed the windscreen broken and the bag missing following which he complained to police.