The Balangir police on Friday busted a gang and arrested five persons, including a woman, in connection with a series of lootings of money from the dickeys of motorcycles.
The arrestees were identified as A Siba, A Santosh, D Gandhi , Sumati Das and a woman Ganga. All the accused are residents of Aska area of Ganjam district, informed Balangir SP Sandeep Sampat at a Press meet here on Saturday.
Police have seized two motorcycle,11 mobile phones and cash of Rs 19,700 from them.
“After five cases of loot of money from motorcycle dickeys were registered in Titilagarh, Muribahal,and Saintla police station, we analysed all the incidents and formed a special team led by Balangir SDPO Srimanta Barik and Titilagarh SDPO Surendra Satpathy to nab the culprits,” said Sampat.
“We appeal to people to keep cash in their possession, rather than keeping in dickey which allows the culprit to steal the money within
few seconds and vanish from the spot with power bikes. We also appeal to people not to halt midway after withdrawal of money from banks,” said the SP.