Bhubaneswar Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) sleuths late on Sunday night arrested three members of an inter-State train looter gang from the Bhubaneswar railway station.
Amar Kumar Mandal (25), Milan Kumar Mandal (22) and Jyotish Mandal (40), all hailing from Bihar, were forwarded to court on Monday. A joint team of the GRP and the RPF followed the looters from the Bhadrak railway station and apprehended them from the Howrah-Trichi Express train while they were planning to loot passengers.However, three others managed to escape from the moving train.
Three rounds of live ammunition, two swords, a toy pistol, two chili powder packets, cash, four mobile phones, SIM cards, blades and voter ID cards were recovered from their possession.