A shocking incident of a theft case came into light when around 4000 nuts and bolts were found missing from a steel girder bridge constructed on Saharanpur-Panchkula National Highway-344 in haryana’s Yamunanagar.
It was only when an authority engineer came for the bridge inspection ,he found out that thousands of nuts and bolts were missing, Dinesh Kumar, SHO Sadar, Yamunanagar, said as per ANI.
However Dinesh Kumar also said that currently, no written complaint has been given to the police from the NHAI (National Highways Authority of India).
But the construction company that built the bridge filed a complaint based on which , a case has been filed under Section 379 of the IPC against unknown persons.
Moreover this is not the first time of such incidents as this year in April a similar case came into light in Bihar’s Rohtas district but at a bigger scale where a 60-feet-long steel bridge Weighing around 500 tons was dismantled and stolen .
The bridge was constructed over the Arrah canal in Amiyawar village in the Nasriganj police station area in 1972 and the bridge was declared old and dangerous.
A group of thieves who came in broad daylight posing as officers of the Irrigation Department, dismantled the entire iron bridge by using gas-cutters and earthmovers and successfully fled with the the scrap in three days.
Such bizarre theft cases have left the police officials baffled .
Haryana | An incident of theft of around 4000 nut bolts from the bridge built on Saharanpur-Panchkula NH-344 in Yamunanagar was reported after an authority engineer inspected the bridge. At present, no written complaint has been given to police from NHAI: SHO Sadar Dinesh Kumar pic.twitter.com/GOfi04k77G
— ANI (@ANI) September 20, 2022
