JAMALPUR: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) recovered stolen railway materials worth about Rs 10,000 near Kiul in the ECR's Danapur division on Wednesday night.
Four persons involved in the heft of railway materials were arrested by the RPF team. They were identified as Prakash Mahto, Umesh Mahto, Dilip Kumar and Ranjeet Mandal.
According to Danapur RPF commandant Jitendra Srivastava, this gang of criminals had been active in the areas of Kiul, Jamalpur and Munger for a long time.
The modus operandi being adopted by them was to commit theft of railway's costly engineering materials secretly stored near the railway tracks at these places and then load them in a waiting Ambassador car to give a dodge to railway police.
