Police have arrested five inter-State dacoits who are allegedly involved in the Mahisapat Idco Tower dacoity case here, extortion and snatching on NH-55.
Sources said the 12 miscreants wearing black masks reached the under construction Idco Tower building at Mahisapat here by four bikes in the afternoon on April 27, 2016. They terrorised the engineers and workers at the construction site by hurling bombs and looted Rs.46,000 cash, a laptop, mobile phones and DVR of CCTV at gun point.
Besides, Dhenkanal S Basant Kumar Panigrahy, has informed that the arrested five accused persons are involve in several dacoity, murder, snatching and extortion incidents in the State apart from the Mahisiapat dacoity case.
The arrestees have been identified as Smarak Das and Joyram Gochayat of Kendrapara, Srikant Rana, Biswajeet Behera and Tusar Naik of Bazi Chauk, Dhenkanal. However Joyram Gochayat alias Rasul is an associate of theTito Gang, the Dhenkanal police claims.