Acting on a tipoff, police nabbed five members of outlawed Jharkhand-based People’s liberation Front of India (PlFI) from Ranipiya village under the Rajgangpur police station limits on Sunday.
The police also seized three bikes, four pistols, several rounds of live bullets and five mobile phones from their possessions.
Getting information that a gang of PlFI members was trying to extort money from a businessman at gunpoint at Ranipiya village, a team of Rajgangpur police rushed to the spot and nabbed them.
Police said several cases like murder, dacoity and extortion are pending against the arrested PlFI members at several police stations under the Sundargarh and Rourkela districts. Police are interrogating the arrested ultras.