In a major breakthrough, the Sonepur police busted an inter-district gang of burglars and receivers of stolen ornaments here on Tuesday.
Subarnapur SP Debi Prasad Dash informed this at a Press conference here on Wednesday.
Police arrested three persons from Sonepur and Balangir and seized huge quantities of gold ornaments, laptops, cameras, watches, LED TVs, printers and phones from them. The value of seized items was estimated at Rs 9 lakh.
The arrested were identified as Abhilash Mishra (a minor) of Sonepur town, Laxminarayan Nanda (a jewellery workshop owner) of Bolangir and mediator Gitanand Satpathy. They have been forwarded to court, said the SP.
Among others, SDPO Mirir Panda and Sonepur IIC Srikant Kumar Tripathy were present.