The police on Friday arrested three persons on the charges of forging challan papers to illegally transport iron ore from the mines of Keonjhar and other areas of the State to the port town of Paradip and other areas.
The Challan is a transit permit issued by a mining office to transport ore outside the mine areas.
On Friday, Niranjan Sahoo of Bhuban in Dhenkanala district furnished a transit permit of a truck bearing no- OR-04 G 6739 at the Chandikhol gate under the Badchana police station. But some persons alleged before the concerned officials that the document was a forged one as one Nanda Kishor Parida of Balichandrapur is the owner of the truck and his truck was not carrying iron ores for last year.
later, filed an FIR at the Badchana police station and alleged that some persons managed to doctor the transit permit and misused the number of his truck. The police started investigation and arrested Niranjan Sahoo (27) of Bhuban, Susanta Das (36) of Narasinghpur and Somnanth Rout of Bhadanga. All the three were booked under Sections 420, 427 and 506 of IPC.
On Friday, they were produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) at Chandikhol. The court rejected their bail applications and remanded them to jail custody, said Badachana police station IIC Ranjit kumar Sahoo.