Jewel thief in Bihar jail behind spate of heists?

A gang of thieves, run from a jail in Bihar, has been involved in theft of at least 180kg of gold across five Hindi heartland states over the past five years.

Patna/Dehradun: What started as a routine investigation into the robbery at a Reliance Jewellery story in Dehradun on November 9 — it was solved promptly with arrests the same month — has pointed to the existence of a gang that focuses almost exclusively on gold and jewellery thefts, and which is run from the Beur jail in Bihar. Over the past five years, police say, the gang has been involved in the theft of at least 180kg of gold across

Subodh Kumar Singh alias Dilip Singh was arrested in January 2018 with 15kg of gold — the takings from a heist in a jewellery store in Patna district.