The Joda police arrested and court-forwarded four inter-State dacoits who were planning to loot trucks carrying iron ore while passing between Joda to Rimuli situated on NH- 520 of Keonjhar district. Joda PS IIC Padmalaya Sahoo revealed that on Monday night at about 3 pm a suspected Xylo jeep having registration No.
JH -06D- 4242 with four youths inside was parked at Kandra- Dampur road by the side of NH-520. A team of police consisting of ASI, Bileipada Beat house Azhar Khan, SI, Joda PS Sasmita Hari and others immediately rushed to the spot. Having seen police, the Xylo sped away towards Jharkhand. However, the police team nabbed them and recovered from them a 9 mm USA-made pistol, mobile and cash.