The Khordha police late on Saturday night arrested five highway looters while they were trying to commit crime.
Khordha SP Dilip Kumar Das said Sanjay Sethi, Pabitra Dalabehera of Ganjam district, Seikh Aftabuddin of Jajpur district, Naba Kumar Sahoo of Begunia and Rabindra Tripathy of Balangir district were nabbed by the Jankia police while they were planning to loot on the National Highway-16 near Dahanigadia bridge under Jankia police limits.
A car along with country-made pistols, knives, blades and other weapons and chili powder packets were seized from the arrested persons.
They all were staying in a rented room in a slum in Bhubaneswar together, added Das. The arrested persons were later forwarded to court.