Lucknow, June 9 -- In a significant breakthrough, a joint team of Sushant Golf City Police and the Surveillance Cell under the deputy commissioner of police (south) has cracked a high-value highway heist involving 30.260 tonnes of steel bars worth Rs.15.37 lakh.

"The consignment, which mysteriously disappeared while being transported from Durgapur, West Bengal, to Lucknow, has been partially recovered along with the truck used in the crime," said additional deputy commissioner of police (south) Amit Kumawat at a press briefing on Saturday.

He added that the prime accused, 26-year-old Shamsher Ram, a resident of Monjra village in Bihar's Munger district, was arrested from a forested stretch along the Bhagalpur-Dumka Road near the Tilatad...