Police in India had been in search of to arrest members of a gang who dismantled a 60-feet-long iron bridge and sure bought it off in components as scrap metallic, officers stated on Sunday.

The robbers, posing as authorities officers hooked up with the irrigation division within the jap state of Bihar, used gasoline cutters and earthmoving equipment to interrupt down an deserted bridge in Amiyawar village, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) south from Patna, the state capital.

Selling metallic scrap could be a profitable enterprise in India, the place circumstances of theft of metallic components from public property to promote in giant, unorganized scrapyards for fast money are widespread.

A police officer stated Amiyawar residents assumed that the federal government officers had determined to dismantle the outdated bridge, constructed over a water canal some three many years in the past, because it was not in use. Villagers had beforehand submitted an utility to the irrigation division to dismantle the bridge, one resident stated.

“People came with heavy machinery, gas cutters and worked for two days during the day time to dismantle the bridge,” stated Gandhi Chaudhary, 29, a villager. Locals requested these working about their id and had been advised that they had been employed by the irrigation division to dismantle the bridge.

Earlier within the week the scrap metallic was loaded right into a automobile and the location was vacated.

“We have identified some members of the gang and some are yet to be tracked down. They destroyed public property and stole a bridge.” stated Subash Kumar, a police official probing the case.