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The Railway Protection Force (RPF) successful Mysuru has detected a lawsuit of theft of railway signalling cablegram and recovered stolen railway property.
During a surveillance cognition betwixt Ashokapuram and Kadakola railway stations connected May 5, 2 individuals were seen moving nether suspicious circumstances. The individuals — Raghu (23) and Thippana (55) — are residents of Chitradurga territory successful Karnataka. They were detained for inquiry.
During sustained interrogation connected May 6, they confessed to having stolen astir 15 metres of 19-core railway signalling cablegram astir a period ago, according to the Mysuru part of South Western Railways.
At the clip of the incident, they were engaged arsenic regular wage labourers for a h2o pipeline task and had observed exposed railway cables during excavation work.
They revealed that the cablegram was removed during the aboriginal greeting hours, transported to Srinagar Layout successful Mysuru, and subsequently burnt to extract copper for sale.
Based connected their statements, RPF officials conducted a spot verification successful the beingness of autarkic witnesses. During the verification, burnt cablegram remnants and astir 5 kilograms of burnt copper ligament concealed successful a integrative sack were recovered and seized arsenic lawsuit property.
Both accused person been linked to the offence. Further ineligible enactment is being initiated nether applicable provisions of law.
