A 500 Tonne, 60 Feet-Long Iron Bridge Has Been Stolen By Thieves In Bihar's Rohtas District!
This might sound unbelievable but is true. A full-size real iron bridge has gone 'missing' in Bihar and was apparently stolen.
The incident was reported from Bihar's Rohtas district where a gang of thieves managed to steal a 60-feet defunct iron bridge in broad daylight.
The thieves, posing as officers of the state Irrigation Department, used gas cutters and earth mover machines to demolish the bridge and take away the scrap metal in three days.
Interestingly, they took the help of local Irrigation Department officials and villagers during the removal of the iron bridge. By the time, officials could understand about theft, the thieves had fled with their "heavy" loot.
The bridge was constructed over the Arrah canal in 1972 at Amiyawar village which comes under Nasriganj police station. As by now, it became quite old and was declared dangerous, the local villagers were not using it, and using a concrete bridge adjoining it.
"We have received a complaint from the officials of the Irrigation Department. Accordingly, we have registered an FIR against unknown persons. The process of making sketches of the accused is underway to identify them. We have also alerted scrap dealers to pass the information about any such materials to their knowledge. The bridge was 60 feet long and 12 feet high," Nasriganj SHO Subhash Kumar said.
Locomotive stolen, and sold
Though the entire episode sounds crazy, this is not the first time Bihar has seen such cases.
Last year in December it was reported that an engineer from the Samastipur Railway Division had sold off a railway locomotive engine.?
The railway employee from the Samastipur Loco Diesel Shed named Rajiv Ranjan Jha managed to sell an old steam engine lying at the Purnea Court Station.
He used a forged letter from Samastipur’s divisional mechanical engineer (DME) and used a gas cutter to cut the engine into pieces and sold them as scrap.
Rats drank the liquor
It is not just thieves who have made headlines for such bizarre acts in Bihar.
A few years ago when lakhs of liquor seized in Bihar, after the alcohol ban went missing, Bihar Police had blamed it on liquor-loving rats.
In May 2017, it was reported that some 9 lakh liters of liquor were missing from police godowns, the state police said that some of the seized bottles had been destroyed and what was left was finished off in the stores by “liquor-loving rats”.? ?
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