Based on the information, a search was conducted in a scrap godown in Prabhat Nagar area of Muzaffarpur district and 13 sacks filled with train parts were found.
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Barauni in Begusarai district of Bihar railway yard The news of alleged theft of engine parts of several diesel locomotives came to the fore. A day after such news appeared in the media, railway officials on Saturday claimed that nearly 95 per cent of the stolen goods have been recovered so far. Birendra Kumar, Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of East Central Railway, told PTI on Saturday. Said in a conversation with that at least seven people have been arrested in the said case so far.
The CPRO said that almost 95 per cent of the stolen railway goods have been recovered from some places in the state. He said that thieves mainly stole expensive copper cables from traction motors of diesel locomotives. As a result of electrification of railway sections in the zone, many old diesel locomotives have been kept in sheds due to non-use. The CPRO said these locomotives were kept as spares, as almost 90 per cent of the railway section has been electrified. Is. He said that these engines are rarely used in non-diesel sectors.
‘thieves didn’t dig tunnel to yard’
The official clarified that the thieves stole only heavy engine parts and not the entire engine (which is not humanly possible) as suggested in some media reports. But the CPRO did not tell how many engines parked in the shed were stolen. Birendra Kumar also clarified that the thieves had not dug a tunnel to the yard, as was said in the reports of some media houses. He expressed the possibility that the thieves might have entered the yard by scaling the broken boundary wall. It is also feared that they (thieves) might have entered the yard by breaking the lower part of the boundary wall.
13 sacks full of train parts found
At present, security has been tightened around the yard and more arrests are expected very soon. Last week, a case of theft of a diesel engine brought for repair at Garhara yard was registered at Barauni police station. A senior Railway Protection Force (RPF) official said that three people were arrested during the investigation. Based on the information given by him during a conversation with reporters in Muzaffarpur on Friday, a search was conducted in a scrap godown in Prabhat Nagar area of Muzaffarpur district and 13 gunny bags filled with train parts were found.
Railway engineer suspended for selling old steam engine
He said that the search for the owner of the scrap godown is on. The recovered items included engine parts, wheels and other equipment made of heavy iron. The official had said that the gang was also involved in opening steel bridges and stealing their parts. Last year, a railway engineer of the Samastipur loco diesel shed was suspended for allegedly selling an old steam engine kept in the Purnia court premises.
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