Eight persons were arrested on the charge of looting the Hundi (funds) of a temple in Ganjam district and receiving stolen gold ornaments from it. Police said gold ornaments weighing around 48 grams, cash around Rs 10,000, which were stolen from the temple, and three mobile phones were seized from them on Sunday night.
Two of them were arrested for receiving and melting the stolen gold ornaments. The accused had looted the Hundi of the Jagannth temple at Sodaka, which had cash of around Rs 31,000 and gold ornaments of around 300 grams on February 15.
IIIC of Polasara police station Tapaswini Kanha said the gang could be busted by tracking the mobile phone calls of one of the accused. The miscreants had taken the assistance of another gang to loot the temple Hundi and at least two of its members were involved in the crime.
