Police on Tuesday arrested and court-forwarded four accused persons on the charge of looting a driver of a Maharashtra truck in the city two days back.
The arrestees were identified as Chinku Swain (21), Navar and Santosh Sahu (29) and Santosh Kumar Behera (29) of Sriramnagar, Ganesh Biswal (19) of Somnathnagar of the city.
The miscreants, impersonating as truck union members, had allegedly beat up and looted the truck driver, Azad Khan, of Rs 8,000 while he was taking rest at a petro pump near the Brahmapur Truck Union Office here on August 11. The right hand of the driver was fractured in the looters’ attack, police said.