The police on Tuesday night arrested four security guards of the Ferro Alloys Corporation limited (FACOR) chromite mine at Kaliapani on the charge of smuggling chromite from mine in Jajpur district.
The manager of the mine had filed an FIR at the Kaliapani police station on Tuesday that some persons managed to take away chromite from the dockyard of the mine.
The arrested security guards are Suka Sardar (24), Kandu Mohanty (40), Mantribar Mohanty (45) and Purna Mohanty (32).During interrogation, they admitted that they illegally supplied about ten tonnes of chromite by a truck on Monday, said police station IIC Raisen Murmu.
The arrested security guards were produced in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) at Jajpur Road. The court rejected their bail applications and remanded them to jail custody.