In a major breakthrough, the Ganjam police busted two inter-district looters’ gangs by arresting 12 miscreants and seizing a huge cache of arms and ammunition at different places under the Aska and Buguda police limits on Thursday.
Acting on a tip-off, police conducted raids and made the arrests and seizures, which included four pistols, 12 bullets, 12 bombs, a toy gun, five motorcycles and hard cash of Rs 58,000, informed Ganjam SP Brijesh Kumar Ray at a Press meet held at Chhatrapur.
The two groups were actively operating in Ganjam, Khordha and Nayagarh districts.
They used to keep an eye on people carrying huge cash, particularly finance company staff and cattle traders and later loot them, the SP said.
“Several cases, including robbery, dacoity and attempt to murder cases are pending against the arrested persons at various police stations.
Search operation is underway to nab the mastermind and other key accused associated with the two gangs,” the SP added.
The looters arrested by the Aska police are Santosh Mahak (32) of Aska, Sanjay Behera (36) of Kumbhar Street, Santosh Jena (27) and Tapas Ranjan Senapati (29) of Bheta Nai, Pinku Sahu (24) of Mamujhia village and Duti Patro (25) of Patrapu.
The miscreants arrested by the Buguda police are Shankar Das (28) of Aska, K Deepak Senapati (32) of Harihar Nagar, Chaina (24) of Nuagaon, Siba Senapati (28) of Jagannath Prasad, Jamir Khan of Dharakote and Sai Sankar Palai (31) of Aska.
