India, Dec. 17 -- Two men were arrested on Sunday for allegedly stealing aluminium alloy bars from a moving goods truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. One of them threw the bars onto the road while the other loaded them into their car, the police said.

According to the police, the theft took place on December 9 near the Madap tunnel stretch between the Madap Tunnel and Kumbhivali Bridge on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. The accused, in a car, closely followed the moving goods truck when one of the accused climbed onto the truck and threw the 45 aluminium bars onto the road, while the other accused collected the bars and loaded them into the car.

The police said that based on a tip-off, they traced the suspects to Char Nal Chowk in the Dong...