Five arrested for stealing copper cable

Friday, April 11, 2008, 19:35 [IST]

Barrackpore, Apr 11 (UNI) The Railway Protection Force (RPF) took five criminals into custody and recovered a huge quantity of copper cable worth about Rs.40000 that was stolen from the track sides from Titagarh last night.

According to Inspector in-charge of Barrackpore RPF station Md.

Pervez Khan, an RPF team rushed to Titagarh following a tip-off that the miscreants were taking away the cable used for signalling system.

A case has been registered here against the five accused. The RPF, however, suspected that some contractor working for railway might have hands behind the theft.

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