The local police on Wednesday arrested 10 inter-state highway dacoits involved in loot of several aluminium trucks and murder of as
many 10 innocent drivers and helpers. Informing details in a Press meet here, Angul SP Rajesh Pandit told that the constant effort of the district police to arrest the miscreants behind several heinous road robberies had paid dividends. He said that the network of the dacoits spreads to Kolkatta covering the districts of Sambalpur, Angul, Jharsuguda, Keonjhar, Cuttack, Bhadrak, Jajpur and Baleswar. The accused were involved in at least 12 cases across the State, he informed. After the gruesome murders of drivers and helpers in different districts were on the rise, a conference at the State level was held by the ADGP (Crime) on safe highways.