Police on Saturday nabbed three persons on the charge of looting Rs 1.49 lakh from a businessman near the Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch at Ersama Bazaar in the district last month.
The three accused included a minor boy while the other two were identified as P Shankar and Karan Rao of Ganjam district. All are members of the Eragola looter gang, which is involved in several looting cases in the State.
The trio was planning to loot a PNB branch at Rahama Bazaar under the Tirtol police station. A police team, which had been deployed in the locality in civil dress, nabbed them and seized Rs 1.30 lakh, two mobile phones and two bikes from their possessions.
The arrested persons were involved in several loots in undivided Cuttack, Khordha and Dhenkanal districts, said Tirtol SDPO Deepak Ranjan Jena.