A railway engineer in Bihar allegedly sold two-metre gauge locomotives after forging documents and is now on the run to evade arrest.
Railway officials said they were not engines, but parts of it, including the bogies in which the engines are fitted.
The steam locomotives, manufactured in the 1950s, were lying unattended near Purnea Court station for over two decades after being decommissioned. Senior section engineer Rajeev Ranjan Jha, posted at Samastipur railway division under the East Central Railway (ECR), allegedly procured a fake office order to sell it as scrap.
