Cracking a loot incident, the Nilgiri police on Sunday arrested six miscreants and recovered cash worth Rs 5.51 lakh and a pistol from them. Three other miscreants were absconding.The arrestees were identified as Chandrakant Mohapatra,Surendra Pradhan, Madhusudan Behera, Susanta Barik, Pradip Pradhan and Jatin Pradhan. They had looted Rs 10 lakh from Dinesh Sanghvi, a resident of Baleswar and a jeweller. On June 17, Dinesh had gone to buy gold from the Nilgiri area along with Pradip Pradhan, who happened to be the son of the former’s friend.
While he was going with cash and a licenced gun to procure gold, on way some people in uniform stopped him posing themselves as Forest department personnel. They searched his scooty and took away the cash as well as pistol before fleeing spot. Dinesh while lodged an FIR with police, the latter during investigation could learn Pradip and Jatin were the key conspirators who informed others that Dinesh was going to village Dwarika under Oupada block to buy gold. Jatin had prepared a blueprint on how to execute loot along with others. SDPO Nilgiri Ritesh Mohapatra said loot was pre-planned and three absconders would be brought to book soon.
