The Chhend police on Tuesday arrested and court-forwarded two persons for attempting to extract Rs 50,000 from Rourkela Municipal Corporation (RMC) Sanitary Inspector Prakash Chandra Pradhan impersonating themselves as Rourkela DIB staffs. The police also recovered a Pulser bike and a mobile set from the two arrested identified as Arun Kumar (42) and Ranjan Kumar Samal (52).
On April 26, some miscreants called Sanitary Inspector Pradhan impersonating themselves as DIB staff and asked him to meet near the Air Strip road. When he went there, the two asked Pradhan to give Rs 50,000 to settle a case of irregularities lodged against him, said Chhend PS IIC NK Sarangi.
later, acting on Pradhan’s complaint and under the instruction of the Rourkela SP, the Chhend police arrested the culprits.