Houdini’s act in Bihar! Thieves dig tunnel to railway yard, steal total diesel engine

A whole diesel engine was stolen piece by piece from a railway yard in Bihar’s Begusarai district, police mentioned on Friday.

The thieves dug a tunnel to the yard and began stealing components, slowly removing your complete engine that was introduced there for repairs, they mentioned.

“Final week, a case was registered on the Barauni police station for the theft of a diesel engine introduced for repairs to the Garhara yard. In the midst of the investigation, three folks had been arrested,” mentioned PS Dubey, the inspector of Railway Safety Drive (RPF), Muzaffarpur.

Based mostly on the data given by them throughout interrogation, searches had been carried out at a scrap godown within the Prabhat Nagar space of Muzaffarpur district, and 13 sacks stuffed with prepare components had been discovered, he mentioned.

“A search is on for the proprietor of the scrap yard, he added. Recovered gadgets embody engine components, wheels from classic prepare engines, and railroad components fabricated from heavy iron, he mentioned. They’d dug a tunnel to the railroad yard, and thru it, they used to hold the locomotive components and different gadgets in sacks,” mentioned Dubey.

The gang can be concerned in unbolting metal bridges and stealing their components, he mentioned. Final yr, a railway engineer at Samastipur Loco Diesel Shed was suspended after he allegedly bought off an outdated steam engine stored on the Purnea Court docket premises.

The engineer had allegedly used a cast letter of the divisional mechanical engineer of Samastipur to promote the engine in connivance with different railway officers and safety personnel.