Engineer among 4 held for stealing aluminium cables from Noida International Airport site, bundles worth Rs 15 lakh recovered

The Greater Noida Police has arrested four men, including an on-site engineer of Tata, for allegedly stealing newly installed aluminium cables from the site of the Noida International Airport in Uttar Pradesh’s Jewar. Seven bundles of aluminium cables worth Rs 15 lakh, a truck bearing a fake number plate and a Maruti Swift car have been recovered from the accused.

According to officials, the arrests were made during a routine check on the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday, near the Gautam Buddha University intersection. The accused have been identified as Shivam Sharma (22) who was working as a site engineer at the airport’s terminal building project; Irshad Ahmed (23), a truck driver; Mohammad Siraj (21) who assisted the truck driver; and Izhar aka Sonu (26), a scrap dealer. While Shivam is a resident of Aligarh, Irshad and Mohammad live in Siddharthnagar, and Izhar is from Delhi.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Sudheer Kumar said that officers from the Ecotech Police station were conducting a check, when they made the arrest and recovered the items. “They were carrying the stolen aluminum wires in a truck which had a duplicate number plate. During questioning, they confessed to having stolen the aluminum wires from the airport site and revealed that they were going to sell it as scrap,” the DCP said.

He also said that a case was registered under sections 317(5) (disposal of stolen property), 318(4) (cheating), 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at Ecotech 1 police station.

Officers said that further investigation was underway to identify others who might have helped the gang.