A railway engineer in Bihar was suspended on Tuesday after he tried to illegally sell a vintage steam engine as ‘scrap’. An FIR was also registered against the engineer Rajiv Ranjan Jha and six other persons in Purnia district.
AK Lal, the divisional security commissioner at Samastipur Railway division, told news agency ANI that a team was formed to arrest the accused and recover the material.
Alok Agrawal, DRM of Samastipur Division under East Central Railway said strict action will be taken against the accused. “It’s is an exceptional case, railway works on trust but someone broke it,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.
