PATNA, May 10 -- A security camera installed on a railway signal between Hazipur-Muzaffarpur rail sections of East Central Railway set off alarms across Bihar on Saturday, forcing the security top brass to scramble to the site in an emergency. Teams of Anti-Terrorism Squad and Special Task Force were deployed to scan the "device" that was thought to be a subversive instrument allegedly being monitored from an outside country. However, it was found later that it was a high-tech security that the Karnataka Police who is after a dacoit of Vaishali -- a nearby area -- who is carrying a reward of Rs.5 lakh on his head. Interestingly, barring the gateman of the crossing, no other authority -- including railway and state police -- was said to aware of the camera's installation. The ATS-STF investigative teams that visited the site and probed into the matter said that the camera is a hidden Internet Protocol (IP) camera, which had a 4G SIM card, was set up on a railway signal at a rail crossing (No 43C) near Sarai railway station. The internet-enabled camera was powered by solar energy. The gateman of the railway crossing informed senior officials about the suspect camera which led to lodging of an FIR against unknown persons. "The FIR registered with the GRP Muzaffarpur section under C29/C5 of BNS, 145/147/151 of Indian Railway Act on the basis of the statement of Sarai station master Manoj Kumar Singh," Rail SP (Muzaffarpur) Beena Kumari said on Saturday. The investigating team quoted the gateman saying that a day earlier, a suspected person, who speaks Haryanvi, reached the railway crossing, posing as NGO staff and installed camera on the signal tower and left the place. The Government railway Police (GRP) also said that it was clueless about the installation of the camera. It however said that when the device was checked, it was clear that it was not monitored from abroad as was claimed in some reports. The police officers said that the SIM inside the camera was found being operated by the Karnataka Police which, when contacted, admitted to have installed the camera to track an absconding dacoit....