3 held for theft of oxygen pipe at Kolkata hospital

KOLKATA: Three persons were arrested on Monday for stealing around 800m

oxygen copper pipe

from the

premises

of

Calcutta Medical College and Hospital

. The accused, Sk Rabiul Islam, Nazim Sk and Nazir Sk. Rabiul, had cut the copper pipe and while escaping from there, they had been caught red-handed. Though the arrests were made on Monday, the theft was committed on Sunday night, according to the police.


Of the three, Rabiul was a local living at Kalabagan near College Street and he had teamed up with the two others to carry out the theft. The price of the pipe has been pegged at Rs 2 lakh in the open market. Cops are interrogating the accused to find whom they were to sell it off.