Patna:

After a bridge and a practice engine, Bihar’s record of weird thefts continued with a complete pond being “stolen”. The pond vanished and had a hut constructed on it, leaving the locals baffled in Darbhanga district.

The shock look of a hut did immediate them to tell the cops, however the land mafia – who’re accused of filling the pond to take over the land – had fled by the point the police arrived.

Locals counsel the pond was publicly-owned and even maintained for fishing and different actions. However the rising costs of land in Darbhanga made the mafia set their eyes on the water physique.

The locals had complained to the authorities when the pond-filling began and had led to zonal officers briefly stopping the work and making some seizures. However the mafia carried out the levelling work secretly at the hours of darkness – till the pond was solely gone.

“Individuals say the pond was full of soil inside 10-15 days. The work was accomplished solely at night time. Officers had visited the spot earlier and even seized some gadgets,” mentioned Amit Kumar, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO).

Bihar has hit the headlines for a few of the most weird incidents of theft carried out – although not possible – by people.

This contains a complete diesel engine being stolen in November, 2022 – half by half from a railway yard in Begusarai. The thieves had dug a tunnel to the yard and began stealing elements, in line with the police. Slowly, they’d taken away your entire engine that had come for repairs.

Earlier that 12 months, a complete 60-foot bridge was stolen in Rohtas district. Eight individuals together with a authorities officer had been arrested and 247 kg iron channels had been recovered from the accused. The thieves used JCBs and gasoline cutters to dismantle it and the bridge disappeared in simply three days.