The Bokaro Thermal police led by officer-in charge of Bokaro Thermal PS unearthed an inter State gang of heavy vehicle lifters and recovered a heavy truck from Putaki located on Bokaro-Dhanbad road following a tip off. According to reports received here on Sunday, the truck was stolen by a gang of criminals about a day before back from a place at Kathara GM office in Bermo sub-division when the truck had been parked. After stealing the truck the member of the gang brought the vehicle at Putaki. Officer-in charge of Bokaro Thermal PS laxamikant said the truck bearing Jharkhand registration number and owned by Jhaman Mahto, normally transports coal from the Kathara CCl to other destination like Varanasi, Dehri-on Sone and Kanpur. The truck after dumping coal was returning to its destination and as it entered Bermo some miscreants, following the truck over took the vehicle. As soon as the vehicle was parked near GM office the miscreants in the night forcibly boarded the vehicle and took control of the steering and tied the hands of driver and threw him near Subahnagar in Bermo and escaped with vehicle.The police in charge on getting information conducted raids in several places and located the truck near Putaki and seized the vehicle . On seeing the police, criminals, however, managed to escape the net.